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Devicehigh

Loads device drivers into the upper memory area. This frees more bytes of conventional memory for other programs. Use the systemroot\System32\Config.nt file, or the equivalent startup file specified in a program's PIF, to load device drivers for the MS-DOS subsystem.

devicehigh=[drive:][path] filename [dd-parameters]

To specify the minimum amount of memory that must be available before devicehigh attempts to load a device driver into the upper memory area, use the following syntax:

devicehigh size=hexsize [drive:][path] filename [dd-parameters]

Parameters

[drive:][path] filename

Specifies the location and name of the device driver you want to load into the upper memory area.

dd-parameters

Specifies any command-line information required by the device driver.

hexsize

Specifies the minimum amount of memory (the number of bytes, in hexadecimal format) that must be available before devicehigh attempts to load a device driver into the upper memory area. You must use both size and hexsize, as shown in the second syntax line.

For more information, click Loadhigh or Device in the Related Topics list.