Appying Rloew's Ram Patch to Fresh Windows ME Installation?

[FantasyAcquiesce]

Hello,

Installing the unofficial Windows Media Player 10 for Windows 9x ended up breaking my Windows ME installation, so I am wondering if it is possible to simply run rloew's ram patch through a live boot of FreeDOS (if there is one) or something similar. I am hoping I do not have to get my hands dirty opening the laptop to remove a stick of ram.

Also, I do not have a floppy disk and my laptop does not appear to have a slot either.

Thank you for your time

Edited June 22, 2020 by FantasyAcquiesce

[ABCDEFG]

The patch can be started in windows.

Going into dos mode is not needed.

For fresh WinMe installation just limit memory pages in C:\Windows\system.ini and system can start without patch.

[386Enh]

MaxPhysPage=40000

you can edit your system.ini from your WindowsMe boot disk using (CD letter):\tools\oldmsdos\qbasic.exe

Of course that's only if you have a cd drive, othewise you need to make a bootable usb...

Edited June 22, 2020 by ABCDEFG

[RainyShadow]

Or boot grub4dos/syslinux/etc. , load some .ISO of suitable size in memory, then chainload your WinME