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How to Change Windows NT's Environment Size

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Article Last Modified on 11/1/2006


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SUMMARY

COMMAND.COM has a limit for environment size. You can change the size by adding the following command line into the CONFIG.NT file

shell=%systemroot%\system32\command.com /p /e:size

where "size" is the maximum length in bytes you want COMMAND.COM to allocate for each program. The default is 256 bytes and the maximum is 32K.

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