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From: wasnsr@nmt.edu (T.O.R.S.O.)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Problem with Windows
Summary: Non-Window App won't run!
Message-ID: <1990Nov3.013716.1132@nmt.edu>
Date: 3 Nov 90 01:37:16 GMT
Sender: wasnsr@jupiter.nmt.edu
Organization: New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
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	I am hoping somebody can help me out with a problem I
      just ran up on with windows.  Yesterday I noticed that
      for some reason, Windows will no longer run any of my 
      non-windows applications, i.e.- Word Perfect, Harvard Graphics
      ,Procomm Plus, Cshow, various games, even the dos shell.  Whenever
      I try to run any of them it gives me the error "Insufficient Memory
      to Run Application".  Now, as of two or three days ago, I could run
      all of these programs through windows (both full screen and windowed).
      Now, I can't run any of them, even with everything but the Program
      Manager closed.  Here are some of the particulars of my system.

		Clone 386 20MHz
		2 MB RAM
		SVGA MONITOR & CARD
		Windows 3.0 (running in 386 Enhanced Mode)
	here are copies of my current Autoxec.bat & config.sys-

******** AUTOEXEC.BAT ******************

MONITOR.COM
@echo off
break=on
prompt $p$g
path d:\win;d:\qemm;c:\;c:\utility;c:\dos;c:\pcplus;c:\pctools;c:\utility\sigma;c:\pckwik;d:\fortran\bin;d:\ee\schema;d:\tasm;d:\utility\uxdos
set pcplus=c:\pcplus
set acad=d:\acad\support
set acadcfg=d:\acad
set gmk4=d:\g4
set nu=c:\utility
set lib=d:\fortran\lib
set tmp=d:\fortran\tmp
set include=d:\fortran\include
set init=d:\fortran\bin
nonum
nde
mirror c: d: e: f:
pckkey /i+ /r4a
set temp=d:\win\temp

****** CONFIG.SYS  ********************

files = 30
buffers = 40
device=C:\himem.sys
DEVICE=C:\GMOUSE.SYS 2
shell=c:\command.com /e:512 /p
device=d:\win\smartdrv.sys 768
device=d:\win\ega.sys

		I checked through both of them myself and could not
	  see anything different about them.  Also, when I pick
	  "About Program Manager" from the help menu, it says that
	  system usage is about 70-75% and that my free memory is
	  1500K.  When I run the windows application FREEMEM that 
	  I got off cica, it shows me with about 522K free with
	  everything except the program manager closed.

		I am at a loss, so if any you Windows experts out
	  there see anthing that I missed (which I probably have).
	 
		Please, please please tell me what it is.

			Thanks in advance, 
				Wayne,
				  (wasnsr@jupiter.nmt.edu)

	P.S.- if you can't see anything obvious and you want more
	      information about my system, send me e-mail.