"Microsoft Project requires VSHARE.386" Error with DR DOS
  
PSS ID Number: Q115979
Article last modified on 10-20-1995
 
4.00
 
WINDOWS
 

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The information in this article applies to:
 
 - Microsoft Project for Windows, version 4.0
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SYMPTOMS
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In Microsoft Project, when you open or save a project file, you
receive the following error message if you are running DR DOS version
6.0 or 7.0:
 
   Microsoft Project requires VSHARE.386 to be installed.
 
CAUSE
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This error message occurs because DR DOS version 6.0 requires
SHARE.EXE, even when you are running Windows for Workgroups version
3.11, which supplies VSHARE.386. When you install Microsoft Project,
the Setup program installs the Share program, either SHARE.EXE, or
VSHARE.386 if you are running Microsoft Windows version 3.11.
 
WORKAROUND
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To avoid receiving this error message when you are running DR DOS
version 6.0 or 7.0, you must exit Windows, run SHARE.EXE from the MS-DOS
prompt, and start Microsoft Windows again.
 
To run SHARE.EXE each time you start your computer, add the following
line to your AUTOEXEC.BAT file
 
   <path>\share.exe /l:500 /f:5100
 
where <path> is the drive and directory where the SHARE.EXE file is
located (usually the MS-DOS directory). For example, if your MS-DOS
directory is called DOS and is on drive C, add the following line to
your AUTOEXEC.BAT file:
 
   c:\dos\share.exe /l:500 /f:5100
 
MORE INFORMATION
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Microsoft Project requires file range-locking functionality of
SHARE.EXE, or in Windows for Workgroups, VSHARE.386. Range locking
allows an OLE server application to lock a certain range of a
document that contains the OLE object to be edited.
 
For more information about applications that conflict with SHARE.EXE,
query on the following words in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
 
   third-party and conflict and share.exe and vshare.386
 
DR DOS is manufactured by a vendor independent of Microsoft; we make
no warranty, implied or otherwise, regarding this product's
performance or reliability.
 
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