>We have an application that works well on all Windows up to W98.
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>We have a client that tried our application on his window xp and he got the message "Too many files open". This is normaly solved by updating or adding a line in Config.sys (FILES=99).
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>In Windows 98, if Config.sys does not exist, we just have to create it.
>Is it the same in Windows XP or do we have to search for a specialy named file??
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>Do we have to expect any other "bad surprise" with Windows XP?
By default, the equivalent file in XP (also in NT/W2K) is CONFIG.NT, in the SYSTEM32 folder. Set your FILES=xxx value there.
Regards. Al
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