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> From: Howard Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Dos and Win ME?
>
> Recently I read of a patch that allows you to boot to real dos mode
> from within windows ME. This was possible without a patch with
> window 98. I assume that both use dos 7, whether you run a dos
> box or go into real mode.
>
> My general impression is that the aging windows 95 is probably the
> best version of windows for being able to actually run most of
> your dos programs.
>
> Is this correct? If I ever need to get a copy of winblows for work
> related reasons, I would like one that let me get to a relatively
> stable form of dos relatively easily.
I bought the wife a 600MHz eMachines box last Christmas, and it came
with Win ME. (Which is really, really bad. It is nothing more than
an HTML-linked version of Win98, but one which does not have a real
config.sys/autoexec.bat. You can write them, but it won't see them
upon reboot. You can't even add a directory to the PATH command.)
Win ME does have a nice third-party patch available, though, and
the patch works well. (It hacks the "emergency boot disk"
command.com for the purpose, and installs it so that Win ME can
be configured YOUR way.) The only problem: during boot-up, it
prints "Emergency boot disk" or similar to the screen.
The same bunch that produced the patch also makes a great little
MS Internet Explorer remover for win ME. (Maybe not a good idea
for everyone, because win ME is SO integrated to it. All of the
worthless ME "help" files are presented in HTML, for example - so
once IE is zapped, viewing any "help" file will give an error that
it can't find IE.)
For me, the least annoying version of windoze is win95. Just make
a "shortcut" to command.com on the desktop: instant (virtual) DOS!
(Unlike the slow, re-booting "Real mode MS-DOS" icon which is part
of the basic suite. It really isn't a complete real-mode, anyway:
windows still retains more than half a meg of RAM as EMS for its
own purposes.)
For REAL real-mode from Win 95, reboot and use F8 to select "command
line only". It won't take as long as windows' own "Real mode
MS-DOS", and leaves you in control of the configuration - not some
Microsoft marketing type.
- John T.
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