I asked this recently but I'm afraid I may have worded it wrong. I have an ME system. I don't know what my dos version is. I loaded some early dos shareware, then TRIED to run Ultima7, and got the error message that my system was in virtual 8086 mode, and that I should remove the OFFENDING SOFTWARE. I deleted the dos shareware games and still got the error message. I ALSO get that message to remove expanded memory.

I don't know how to get out of virtual 8086 mode, and I don't know how to remove expanded memory.

Please help.

Thank youYeah, some older games are like that. You can go to the games forum and maybe they can tell you. You will need to create a DOS shortcut and then change it so that uses the computability mode. Or something like that. Thank you.Indeed- Windows uses the "Virtual 8086" mode of PROCESSORS beyond the 386 to create new instances of DOS applications- so that, as far as the application is concerned, it is running in DOS. However- In this case the game will onbly run in Real mode (literally pure DOS) so as Geek said you'll need to change the settings so the computer reboots into DOS mode.