EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

On Friday, December 27, 2002, at 09:15  AM, Hendrik Jan Veenstra 
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  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