[comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc] Help with HIMEM.SYS and WINDOWS 3

briggs@tamunix (Mark Lowe) (11/03/90)

ACK!  I finally got a meg of extended memory for my 386.  Now when I try to
run Windows 3 with the /s or /3 options, I get "Invalid HIMEM.  Install HIMEM
from your Windows setup disks" or something like that.  The HIMEM I'm using is
from my DOS 4.01 disk.  I checked out my Windows disks and there is no HIMEM.
SYS to be found ANYWHERE!  What is the deal here!??

All help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks...

Mark C. Lowe - KB5III

reisert@ricks.enet.dec.com (Jim Reisert) (11/03/90)

In article <9801@helios.TAMU.EDU>, briggs@tamunix (Mark Lowe) writes...
>The HIMEM I'm using is
>from my DOS 4.01 disk.  I checked out my Windows disks and there is no HIMEM.
>SYS to be found ANYWHERE!  What is the deal here!??

There is indeed a HIMEM.SYS supplied with Windows 3.0.  I think it's copied
to C:\ during installation.  During installation, you should have selected
'Let Windows modify your AUTOEXEC and CONFIG files, but allow you to check
the changes before overwriting them.' Then it would have been obvious where
HIMEM.SYS came from.

jim

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medici@dorm.rutgers.edu (Mark Medici) (11/04/90)

Microsoft compresses the files on the Windows 3 distribution disks.
For unknown reasons, the leave the filename intact for all files
except *.SYS.  The *.SYS files are renamed to *.SQS (or some such
sillyness).  There is an executable on disk 1 named EXPAND.EXE to
uncompress the files.

First copy EXPAND.EXE from disk 1 to your hard disk.  Then search
through your MS-Windows 3.0 distribution disks for HIMEM.*.  When you
have the right disk in drive A: (or B:), type

	[d:\path\]EXPAND [d:\path\]HIMEM.SQS [d:\path\]HIMEM.SYS

Of course, substitute the correct drive ID and path, if necessary, in
front of each filename.  Don't write the expanded HIMEM.SYS on your
original Windows distribution disk - this is considered very bad
manners!

Cheers

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