This may have already been covered (I am a little behind in my reading),
but after you finish editing the msdos.sys file, MAKE SURE YOU RETURN ITS
ATTRIBUTES TO WHAT IT WAS. If you don't and you try to "boot to previous
dos version" it will trash the msdos.sys and you will not be able to boot
at all. Time to re-install Win95, unless you have stored a copy of the
msdos.sys and replace it. Ask me how I know-experience in breaking the
msdos.sys file numerous times and re-installing win95 until I figured it
out. Ps: This is a secret I have never read about before! 8-) This
is the way I start win95.
Michael
On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Or Botton wrote:
> Well, just to explain, this is how I work:
> "Pure DOS" is a DOS that you access without Windows in the background
> (that is, not a "command.com season" or "dos box" or whatever.)
>
> Pure DOS is when you load DOS.. and thats it. :)
>
> Regarding windows 95, yep. it a DOS program. Remember when 3.11 used
> to be ran from the autoexec? (lots of people tend to added there)
> WIndows95 is the same.. only here its not called from command.com,
> but by DOS itself.
>
> Its possible to disable this thing. Open MSDOS.SYS in Edit, or
> whatever you use for these.. (make sure to take off the "read only",
> "hidden", and "system" attributes from it!)
>
> In Windows 95, instead of having the DOS data, they moved everything
> from MSDOS.SYS into IO.SYS. So now MSDOS.SYS is just working like
> an .INI file for DOS. Freaky, huh?
>
> Add the following line (or edit it, if its allready there):
> bootgui=0
>
> This will cause the Windows 95 DOS to forget about running WIN.COM
> after it boot, leaving you in good ol' C:\>.
>
> To run windows, just type win (to run WIN.COM in C:\WINDOWS, or
> where ever you got Windows 95 installed.)
>
> Be aware that Windows, once you try to choose "shut down", will not
> go back to DOS prompt. It will leave you in the "you can turn off now"
> screen, or turn off your computer. If you want, i got a fix for that,
> too... :) (its a nifty batch file. Yea! a batch file. doesnt work
> on auto-shutdown ATX computers, though.)
>
> Or Botton
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>
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