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Hey all,

I am currently working on a Windows 95 install and am running into some problems. I keep getting an error message about

"Insufficient memory to initialize Windows.

Quit one or more memory-resident programs or remove unnecessary utilities from your CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT files, and restart your computer. "

I checked the Microsoft site and it said to change the MaxPhysPage setting in the system.ini file. I did so and I still continue to get the above error. The computer is a home build with a Pent4 processor 20 GB HDD and 1024MB of memory. Any suggestions would be of much help. I am stumped at this point.
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TwoCables
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Originally Posted by Gryph3n View Post
Hey all,

I am currently working on a Windows 95 install and am running into some problems. I keep getting an error message about

"Insufficient memory to initialize Windows.

Quit one or more memory-resident programs or remove unnecessary utilities from your CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT files, and restart your computer. "

I checked the Microsoft site and it said to change the MaxPhysPage setting in the system.ini file. I did so and I still continue to get the above error. The computer is a home build with a Pent4 processor 20 GB HDD and 1024MB of memory. Any suggestions would be of much help. I am stumped at this point.
This may sound silly, but perhaps there's too much memory installed. Either that, or the memory is too new for Win95. Eh, I'm just brainstorming.
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Why 95?
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Why 95?
That's not important. But, I guess it would be fun to know.
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sgdude
yeah you might need to get some patch to allow the ram. idk
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Trav1s
I was thinking that too twocables. You could install 2000 with them specs.
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Teufle
Windows ME imo
(groans in the back ground)
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Its 95 because that is the operating system this client has requested as a dual boot setup. I would love to get into the OS to be able to patch it but, cannot. I can get into command prompt and can edit the autoexec.bat and config.sys, but the install is as minimal as it gets anyway so I dont know what else to configure to adjust for the memory size. I feel like the answer is right under my nose and I am just missing it. Is there a way to adjust the amount of memory that the OS sees? I tired running memmaker at a prompt and that didn't work either.

I thought about changing the way windows loads. Maybe setting it up to run in high memory instead of expanded memory. I am jsut drawing a blank at the moment on how to do that through DOS. Please DOS Wizards I beseech thee!! Help me from this mental block...

Thanks for all the info again
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Trav1s
I was thinking you could use VMware to play around with 95 etc, don't know if it would help at all though.
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well I cant get into Win 95 at the moment in order to be able to access VM ware from the GUI. I am still researching this information. If anyone else has some bits of info for me I would greatly appreciate it. I will let you know what develops.
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well I cant get into Win 95 at the moment in order to be able to access VM ware from the GUI. I am still researching this information. If anyone else has some bits of info for me I would greatly appreciate it. I will let you know what develops.

How about installing Win95 on a virtual machine using VMware instead?
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Well I would do so if it was my machine, but I am doing this install at the client's request. So I have to go by what I am getting paid to do not what I would suggest to do. I think I have it figured out though. I think the Autoexec.bat file is missing the line where it loads Emm386.sys and himem.sys in the System.ini file. So that it will load the drivers in 32 bit instead of 16 bit. I will let you guys know what I come up with this afternoon. *keeping my fingers crossed*
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