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re: Maximizing memory in win 95 Friday, April 10, 2009 at 1:36 pm Posted by jack hall (288 messages posted) For starters you can go HERE and download msconfig. Select the right version. It works on the B and C versions. (2.0,2.1, and 2.5 versions. I Don't know about the A version. If you need to increase memory, this won't do it, but it's a nice feature. On Friday, April 10, 2009 at 12:06 pm, Hung Pham wrote: >I have the stand-alone version of windows 95. the autoexec.exe and config.sys are >not available to me. i can't run msconfig. Is there another way for me to maximize >my memory without them? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Maximizing memory in win 95 Monday, April 13, 2009 at 2:39 pm Posted by Jerry (901 messages posted) Hi Hung: If you're thinking you need to "manage" your memory with something like the old DOS MEMMAKER, you don't have to with the DOS that runs under Win95 -- Windows will take care of that automatically. However, I often use the Win95 DOS without running Windows, and it works great. I have a CONFIG.SYS file to load HIMEM.SYS and EMM386.EXE to take advantage of "upper memory" that DOS normally wouldn't have access to. DOS=HIGH, UMB DEVICE=c:\himem.sys DEVICE=c:\emm386.exe ram FILES=99 LASTDRIVE=Z NOTE: If you don't have HIMEM.SYS and EMM386.EXE in your root directory, put copies there, or change the CONFIG.SYS path to point at their location in C:\WINDOWS. I also use SMARTDRV.EXE in my AUTOEXEC.BAT file. Jerry [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 95 Discussion Forum