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From: itkin@mrspoc.Transact.COM (Steven M. List)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Problems with DOS 4.01?
Summary: It drops out!
Keywords: Windows DOS
Message-ID: <1991Jan14.225000.8188@mrspoc.Transact.COM>
Date: 14 Jan 91 22:50:00 GMT
Reply-To: steven@Transact.COM
Organization: Transact Software
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I have a small problem.  I went and got a copy of DOS 4.01, took my heart
in my hand, backed up my system, reformatted and restored, and then tried
to run windows.  It wouldn't run!  That is, when I start Windows it displays
the Microsoft title page and then, after doing some work, drops to a DOS
prompt.  Sigh.  I tried reinstalling Windows, although not in a fresh 
directory.

Lemmesee - backing up a bit, the first problem I encountered was that
Windows dropped out right away, saying that a device file was corrupt or
something - something like vm86??? - so I tried messing with the system.ini
file.  Didn't work.  That's when I tried reinstalling.  I won't swear that
I didn't screw up something else in trying to get this all to work.

I installed DOS with the default setup, removing ANSI.SYS, leaving the
FASTFILE (or whatever it is) stuff, and adding HIMEM.SYS in config.sys.
I confess that I have not done a lot of reading in the DOS User Guide
as yet, so if the answer is RTFM, please be gentle!  :^>

Anyone have any pointers?

Steven
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