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Subject: Re: HIMEM.SYS and DOS 8
Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2002 23:43:44 +0200
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Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com

    Renaming HIMEM.SYS does not work, since the process seems to be that
IO.SYS in Windows ME has a built in XMS manager, it does not load HIMEM.SYS.
    I have tried HEXediting IO.SYS, but seems to be compressed in some way
(IO.SYS from ME is 100K, while in 98 is 200K).

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ben A L Jemmett" <ben DOT jemmett AT ukonline DOT co DOT uk>
To: <opendos AT delorie DOT com>
Sent: Saturday, September 14, 2002 11:24 PM
Subject: Re: HIMEM.SYS and DOS 8


> The BFI (Brute Force and Ignorance) method for preventing it from loading
> HIMEM.SYS on boot would be to either rename HIMEM.SYS or open IO.SYS in a
> hex editor, and alter any occurrences of HIMEM.SYS so it can't find the
> file.
>
> Regards,
> Ben A L Jemmett.
> (http://web.ukonline.co.uk/ben.jemmett/, http://www.deltasoft.com/)