Saving Memory with TSRs and Windows 3.0 (68167)
The information in this article applies to:
- Microsoft Windows 3.0
- Microsoft Windows 3.0a
This article was previously published under Q68167 SUMMARY
You may experience problems running Microsoft Windows version 3.0
when conventional memory or environment space is low. One way to save
memory is to avoid the use of TSR (terminate-and-stay-resident)
programs. If this is not possible, you can still save memory by
invoking TSRs from the CONFIG.SYS file (when possible) or at the
BEGINNING of the AUTOEXEC.BAT file.
MORE INFORMATION
Each program loaded into memory gets a copy of the environment (the
PATH, PROMPT, and other variables that you set). The more programs
loaded in this manner, the more conventional memory used. If TSRs
are loaded before setting any environmental variables, the memory
used by the TSR is reduced by the amount of space usually taken by
the environment string. This memory is rounded to the nearest 16
bytes.
NOTE: If the PATH is set after TSRs are loaded, full path names must
be used.
REFERENCES
"Microsoft Windows User's Guide", version 3.00, pages 442-443 and
pages 515-519
| Modification Type: | Minor | Last Reviewed: | 7/7/2005 |
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| Keywords: | KB68167 |
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