On Friday, December 27, 2002, at 09:15 AM, Hendrik Jan Veenstra <h@...> wrote: I too use VPC. > So I downloaded Awave. Next Virtual PC (or Windows) complains that > there are too many open 16-bit files -- "please quite some 16 bit > programs or increase the FILES line in config.sys". Since there's > nothing to quit, I add a line "FILES = 32" to config.sys. Still the > same complaint. Then changed this line into "FILES = 256". Now the > installer seems to launch, resulting in a hard crash, which is > reported to be caused by Explorer (which isn't running at all)??? > Ctrl-alt-del to reset the PC... And out of ideas... I sometimes get a similar response (without the FILES part) in VPC too. This happens when I try opening files from a Shared Mac/PC Virtual Drive/Folder. If I copy the file to a VPC virtual drive, it usually works fine. What windows are you running in VPC? > > Gosh, how I hate PCs, really... It's probably just me, but all too > often I seem to run into stuff like this when using the PC... > Same here, but I really think it is more VPC's blame. ruben