Location of Installed Windows 3.0 Drivers

• Microsoft Windows operating system versions 3.0, 3.0a

SUMMARY

The information in this article is specific to Microsoft Windows version 3.0.

The following is a list of the installed locations of drivers included with Windows 3.0:

   Driver        Location
   ------        --------

   RAMDRIVE.SYS  Windows 3.00 directory
   SMARTDRV.SYS  Windows 3.00 directory
   EMM386.SYS    Windows 3.00 directory
   EGA.SYS       Windows 3.00 directory
   MOUSE.COM     Windows 3.00 directory (optional)
   MOUSE.SYS     Windows 3.00 directory (optional)
   MOUSEHP.COM   Windows 3.00 directory (optional)
   MOUSEHP.SYS   Windows 3.00 directory (optional)
   HIMEM.SYS     Root directory of Drive C

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Mouse drivers are copied to the hard drive only if they are needed to replace an existing older version of the same driver.

HIMEM.SYS is copied to the root directory of Drive C because of potential problems with hard drive partitioning drivers.

HIMEM.SYS is always placed first in the CONFIG.SYS file. If Windows is installed on a drive other than C:, and a hard drive partitioning driver is used, HIMEM.SYS will be listed before the partitioning driver and thus will not load because its drive is not present before the partitioning driver is loaded. Always placing HIMEM.SYS in the root directory of C: solves this problem.