The article that this is based on is href='" data-type="undefined" target="_blank">here. Windows ME now automatically allocates 40 extra file handles - more than enough - and Ultima 8 will be happy. Open this file.The file has various sections, including and In this section type this entry: Open Notepad browse until you are looking in the C:\Windows folder.Set Notepad to look for All Files you are looking for a file called System. There is a solution however - thanks to Scratchy Dragon for bringing it to our notice: This is pretty hard to do in ME, as the operating system does not even read this file.
The following quote is related to a method used for playing DOS games in WinME (by raising the file count): Taken from align='left" data-type="undefined" target="_blank"> Note for Windows ME users: Ultima 8 requires lots of 'file handles', and will prompt you to put FILES=40 in your config.sys file. I don't have a copy of XP to play with, but its a possibility that you will have to edit system.ini to get the file count up to where you want it. That problem is suppossedly caused by not having enough files allocated in config.sys.
