Jim

that's really interesting: we still have this in our set-up at work - I know
because I have a VBA application which broke the limit....

am on Windows XP here at home and, as you say, there is no config file (that
I can find)

but at work the limitation exists and is not easily put right - if I
distribute the application I need to ensure the number of open files is kept
below 99

thanks for responding

Tim


"Jim Rech" wrote in message
...
I thing that setting is obsolete under Windows, Tim. In the old DOS days
machine memory was limited to 640k and you had to worry about allocating
it
for various purposes. Each "file" allocated took a little bit. I think
you
can safely forget about it. If Config.sys has an entry it's for "legacy"
purposes I would guess. My Config.sys is empty btw.

--
Jim Rech
Excel MVP