Running Nonnative Applications in Windows 2000 Professional

Each MS-DOS-based application runs on Windows 2000 in a separate VDM. Any number of VDMs can be run within resource limits, each in its own address space. By default, Windows 2000 gives the name Ntvdm.exe to every VDM, but you can change their names; see MS-DOS Application Processing later in this chapter.

Each VDM has its own system configuration files, named Autoexec.nt and Config.nt by default. To create custom startup files to run in place of these, see the information about customizing startup later in this section.