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On Wed, 14 Aug 1996, John P. DuLong wrote: > to square one in WIndows 3.11. Basically, to make a long story short, OS/2 > Warp wrote over my WIN.COM file. This new WIN.COM file was for 3.1, was > 30,882 bytes, and dated 03-23-95. It insisted on loading 84K of > conventional memory. The result was that I did not have enough conventional > memory to do anything! When I finally replaced WIN.COM with a 3.11 files, > 50,904 bytes, and dated 05-14-96, my problems went away. Now WIN.COM only Just FYI, IBM made Windows 3.1 DPMI compliant (like it should've been to begin with) and included it with OS/2 as Win-OS/2. Microsoft then released 3.11 (which was still not DPMI compliant and thus unable to run under OS/2) pretty much to dis IBM. I'm surprised OS/2 actually kept a copy of the 3.1 WIN.COM file around and overwrote your 3.11 WIN.COM file, but then I never tried mixing the two. All this switching and overwriting WIN.COM files and OS/2 users having to wait for Windows support could've been avoided if Microsoft had followed their own DPMI spec when making Windows in the first place. It was pretty sleezy of them to put their bottom line ahead of their customers' convenience, but that seems to be acceptable behavior in business nowadays. > As a consequence of this experience, I want to totally remove OS/2 Warp > from my laptop. I have not found a delete or erase option with it. How The Windows software that originally shipped with the Thinkpad should have an option to delete OS/2. OS/2 is an operating system and it's pretty difficult (impossible?) to delete it while it's running. After you use this delete option, there are two remaining files you'll need to zap with something like Norton Utilities. EA DATA.SF and some other file. They both have spaces in their names, which is why del won't work. -- John H. Kim "I stop for red traffic lights" -- bumper sticker jokim@mit.edu commissioned by the City of Boston as part of a MIT Sea Grant campaign to shed its reputation for bad drivers.