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WinNT, BDE Errors 2501, 210D, 2104, insufficient memory for this operation (2501), shared memory conflict (210D), cannot find engine configuration file (2104) It may be necessary to modify the BDE setting SHAREDMEMLOCATION found on the SYSTEM | INIT page of the BDE Administrator. Valid SHAREDMEMLOCATION values range from 1000 to 7F00 (additional details can be found below and in the BDEADMIN.HLP file) BDE v3.x and higher for Win95 and NT With one application using the Borland Database Engine already loaded- Launch of second app using BDE: BDE Error 2501 "INSUFFICIENT MEMORY FOR THIS OPERATION" Debugging second app: BDE Error 210D "SHARED MEMORY CONFLICT" With debugger turned off: BDE Error 2104 "CANNOT FIND ENGINE CONFIGURATION FILE" Additional SHAREDMEMLOCATION details: Preferred address of shared memory manager. The shared memory manager and shared buffer manager load at a preferred address. If this address is used, the system can find a suitable address (first process only). If this address conflicts with another application, you might want to modify it. If the shared managers cannot be loaded into the default, or specified memory address, one attempt to allow the operating system to find a memory address is made. If a memory address if specified outside the boundry (below), the default is used. Default (for Windows 95): 0xEBDE0000 Minimum Value (for Windows 95): 0x90000000 Maximum Value (for Windows 95): 0xFFFF0000 Default (for Windows NT): 0x6BDE0000 Minimum Value (for Windows NT): 0x10000000 Maximum Value (for Windows NT): 0x7F000000 The range setting for SHAREDMEMLOCATION is 9000 to FFFF for Windows 95 and 1000 to 7F00 for Windows NT. Only the upper word is used to set SHAREDMEMLOCATION. In the BDE Administrator the "Object" | "Options" | "Save for use with" should be set to "Windows 95/NT only". This will save all System and Driver settings to the registry. When this option is set to "Windows 3.1 and Windows 95/NT" all changes are saved to just the CFG file. If you wish to save new and updated System, Driver and Database/Alias settings to the CFG file then the "Save for use with" option should be toggled to "Windows 95/NT only", config settings updated and then the "Save for use with" option changed back to "Window 3.1..." etc. This will ensure that changes are written to both the CFG file (for 16bit compatibility) and to the registry (for 32bit compatibility). PUB ALL WINNT BDE ERROR BC, SF 6.26.98