Hi,
On Fri, 17 Mar 2000 22:31:57 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:
> I try to optimize my CONFIG.SYS and my AUTOEXEC.BAT for use with DOS
> and WIN 95 ignores these files as if they weren't even there. It boots
> to Window$ 95 before even waiting for AUTOEXEC.BAT to complete. With
> WIN 3.x I can set it up the way I want. WIN 95 doesn't even care how
> you want your DOS to be configured. WIN 95 doesn't even care whether
> you even have an AUTOEXEC.BAT and a CONFIG.SYS because it is just going
> to do its own stupid thing anyway. It seems that no matter how I set up
> my CONFIG.SYS and my AUTOEXEC.BAT, my WIN 95 machine will leave me with
> very little DOS memory left after it boots. OK, so there might be some
> kind of techno-geek method of dealing with the problem. But why bother
> when you have the option of simply "up-grading" to Win 3.x ? With WIN 3.x
> I always boot to DOS. In order to do this I simply omit "WIN" from my
> AUTOEXEC.BAT. If I want to run Window$, I simply type the word "win" at
> the command line. Easy. If I want my PC to run Window$, I just simply
> tell it to do so.
Edit your C:\MSDOS.SYS file like this (first: attrib -h -s -r):
In the section [options] add (or change) the line:
BootGUI=0 (default=1)
This will cause MS-DOS to not load Win95 automaticly. Just type Win
to boot the GUI. Be careful that MSDOS.SYS > 1024 bytes. And always
make backups if you edit system files (and be sure you have a boot
floppy to recover files in case somethings go wrong).
Search at www.microsoft.com (if you like) for tweakui (part of
w95powertools/toys). This is a tool to edit some system settings in
Windows (w/o knowledge about it).
This is part of my MSDOS.SYS:
[Options]
AutoScan=2 # This will start Scandisk w/o delay.
BootMulti=1 # Can't remember this one.
BootGUI=0 # Only load DOS, not Win95.
DisableLog=1 # No updates of bootlog.txt.
Logo=0 # No splash screen.
- Best regards,
- Willy J. Hoogstraten.
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