> From: "Robert Deering" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Organization: are you kidding?
> Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 13:37:20 -0500
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: booting up
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> On Sun, 22 Oct 2000 02:58:21 -0400 (EDT), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric S.
>Emerson) wrote:
>
> > Hi Neil,
> > Just as Jim Palmer has suggested in a previous
> > e-mail I have BootGUI=0 in my MSDOS.SYS. I am running Win95.
> > When I turn on my computer it boots to DOS. If I want to start
> > Windoze I type WIN.
>
> Most laptops and a few desktops power down when leaving the GUI at
> shutdown. Those that don't _seem_ to lock up when you select shutdown;
> it's not locked, it's just that the vidmode isn't valid for the text now
> being output. If you get this blank screen, just do the old "mode co80".
> You'll now be able to see what you're doing.
>
> Thus, instead of "win", you may want to start Windows with "loadwin":
>
> loadwin.bat -------
>
> @win
> @mode co80
>
> The entire GUI session runs inside the bat and thus returns to a valid
> DOS prompt after shutting down windows.
>
>
> Bob
> -- Arachne V1.66, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/
>
