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From: nef@mace.cc.purdue.edu (paulhicks)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Too many files loaded?
Message-ID: <6714@mace.cc.purdue.edu>
Date: 29 Jan 91 17:13:21 GMT
Reply-To: nef@mace.cc.purdue.edu or phicks@mn.ecn.purdue.edu (paulhicks)
Organization: Purdue University
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I hope this hasn't been covered before, but here goes.  I 
wanted to load about 7 applications at the startup of windows.
So I used 'load= etc' to do this.  Because none of the programs
were in the windows directory, I used the full path, eg c:\....
When I started windows, only 3 programs were loaded, and the
'cannot find file, check path' messege reared its ugly head.
I checked the path n win.ini and nothing was
wrong.  As it turned out, it seems that windows will only load
programs on the load line up to a certain number of characters,
after that it stops.  Has any one experienced this before?  Is
there anyway to continue the 'load=' file on the next line of win.ini?

The solution I came up with was to shorten the path from 
'c:\windows\subdirectory\file.exe' to '.\subdirectory\file.exe'
But this is only a temporary because I will run into the same problem
if I try to load any more files.  I hope someone has the answer.

Thanks in advance, Paul
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