Command Prompt with elevated privileges problem
I am trying to run command prompt as administrator to troubleshoot some Group Policies problems. Since the user does not have admin privilege I tried to run as administrator and got this message  "Too many other files are currently in use buy 16-bit programs. Exit one or more 16-bit programs or increase the value of the FILES command in your Config.sys". I did a clean boot with no services besides Microsoft services and still got the problem. I created config.sys file on c:\ with Files=130 and Buffers=1000 and no result . This is the first time I have encounter a problem like this. I can't run cmd.exe as administrator. Any ideas on that?
July 17th, 2015 7:12pm

Hi EMURRAY01,

Thanks for your post.

What's the operation system of your computer?

Here is the similar thread disscussed before, maybe you could read for a reference.

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/it-IT/e15542a4-7a8a-4cd0-b8c6-b9d8335246d9/performance-issue-too-many-other-files-are-currently-in-use-by-16bit-programs?forum=w7itproperf

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July 20th, 2015 3:22am

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