Net Start crashes Dos 6.22 with Himem.sys loaded

[abuthemagician]

I need to get this working. I am running dos 6.22 in virtual PC 2007. I have all my drivers installed, etc but when i run "net start" the system hangs after showing the nic info. If i remove himem.sys from config.sys it works great. Any ideas?

config.sys

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DEVICE=C:\VMADD\VMADD386.SYS
DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\HIMEM.SYS
DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\EMM386.EXE RAM I=B100-B7FF I=C600-C7FF I=CC00-CFFF I=E600-EFFF FRAME=D000
DOS=HIGH,UMB
DEVICEHIGH=C:\WINDOWS\SMARTDRV.EXE /DOUBLE_BUFFER
DEVICEHIGH=C:\WINDOWS\IFSHLP.SYS
STACKS=9,256
REM **********************************************
REM ****  DOS Virtual Machine Additions      *****
REM **********************************************
DEVICEHIGH=C:\VMADD\CDROM.SYS /D:IDECD001 /L:E
LASTDRIVE=Z
DEVICEHIGH=C:\WINDOWS\DC21X4.DOS /I:C:\WINDOWS

autoexec.bat

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LOADHIGH C:\WINDOWS\SMARTDRV.EXE /L
@ECHO OFF
PROMPT $p$g
PATH C:\WINDOWS;C:\DOS
SET TEMP=C:\DOS
@REM **********************************************
@REM ****  DOS Virtual Machine Additions      *****
@REM **********************************************
LOADHIGHG c:\vmadd\fshare.exe
LOADHIGH c:\DOS\MSCDEX.EXE /D:IDECD001 /L:E /M:8
LOADHIGHG c:\vmadd\idle.com
LOADHIGH c:\vmadd\mouse.com
rem LOADHIGH C:\WINDOWS\net start