Hi All

I need help!

When I startup Windows with MS-DOS 7.10 Running under

When I Type in win at the C: Prompt to go to the 386 enhanced mode of windows , a message says that the "PageOverCommit in the System.ini is to large , please make the value less than 4"

What is a PageOverCommit in the Sytem.ini

How do I Decrease the Value because I can only Start Windows in Standard Mode ?

Hello SoftwareSales, this link to the microsoft support page should help: INFO: Troubleshooting DOS Error 21h Under Win32s.

Let me know if you need anymore help.

Regards

Martin

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the problem is when I launch WIN.com /3 it boots back into the command prompt and says "PageOverComit to Large in the system.ini " must not be greater than 4 , please reduce option.

the option is not there in the system.ini

Please help

Hi,

as you may have read from the 1st suggested link, PageOverCommit determines the maximum "swapsize" in inrements of available RAM. The reason you can't start windows is either that there's not enough free diskspace on C: or that even though there seems to be plenty, it's all fragmented and thus unusable for Windows. 1st try making room on the disk: del all TEMp-files you know are TEMP-files, delete files with the extention of SWP, especially one called win386.swp, as this is the logical name of the swap-file and windows will recreate it on startup. If all this doesn't help, edit the SYSTEM.INI file using an ASCII-editor, find the Enhanced386-section and change the PageOverCommit value to something under 4. Once you get Windows up, use some diskdefragmenter-software to defragment the disks!

HTH

Petri

Try putting this in to your system.ini file under the [386Enh] heading : PageOverCommit=4.

Regards

Martin