Hi

I have just filled up my motherboard with 2 Gb of RAM (from 512Mb) and installed a DVD re-writer to my aging Windows XP(SP2) machine.  It is now lovely and everything seems to work except my Maple 9.5 in Standard view which will no longer start (although in classic it does and seems to work).  I am in my final year at university and using maple heavliy for the final year project so I am relatively desparate at the moment.

I get no error or splash screen and have clicked the .exe directly just in case the shortcut was wrong.  I have uninstalled and re-installed Maple 9.5 and even upgraded to version 9.52, I have also checked that my (windows) firewall allows the maple and java files.

I have uninstalled 'DVD Decripter' and 'Videora Ipod converter' which were installed shortly after the memory upgrade and  I have returned the registry files that I had to take out using Ccleaner when Nero did not uninstall completely.  I have also system restored to a couple of different points without success.

I have found one thread (http://www.mapleprimes.com/forum/installing-problem-for-maple-10)where a similar problem was encountered in Maple 10 and an excellent fix was identified by Scott03 in the FAQ (type 'maxheap' in the search).  Apparently Java refuses to start if the amount of physical memory is too high.  The fix is to edit the file launch.ini found in Maple's bin.win folder by

adding the line;
maxheap=800m

After the line:
language=en

The problem is that in my Maple 9.5 there is no 'launch.ini' file.  I have only found maplesys.ini and maple9.5.ini neither of which have a reference to maxheap.  However maple9.5.ini has a line which reads;

StackLimit=2048

I have tried changing this to 800 but it did not work.

Does anyone have any idea if there is an equivalent java problem with Maple 9.5 or have suggestions for a similiar fix?

Very grateful for any help as I have loads to do to finish my project.