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- 95 Ultimate Booter
- By Fred Salerno
- NOTE: This program requires Windows 95.
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- WHAT IT IS...
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- This program allows you to select which way to boot up Windows 95. By default,
- you are brought straight into Windows, but with this utility you can choose.
- You have 3 options:
- 1 - Command Prompt
- Which boots up Windows 95 and goes to the C:\> prompt, not
- Windows itself and is an alternative to choice #4.
- 2 - Windows 95 GUI
- Which is the normal 95 boot sequence which goes into Windows.
- 3 - Internal Boot Menu
- Which is the internal Windows 95 menu (Safe mode, command
- prompt, Network safe mode, etc..)
- 4 - Previous DOS
- Which boots the computer with the last version of DOS installed
- prior to Windows 95 and a choice of config/autoexec files.
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- This program has been tested with the "4.00.950" release which is the official
- release of Windows 95, currently available in stores. It works
- flawlessly, but as always, no guarantees are made.
- I may be contacted at: SALERNOF@GATE.NET
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- HOW TO INSTALL
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- The easiest way to install this is to unzip the archive into a temporary area.
- Then run the INSTALL program.
- Specify the Windows directory and where booter should be installed, or make a
- new directory.
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- HOW TO RUN 95BOOTER
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- Click on START -> 95 Booter -> 95 Booter
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- HOW TO RETURN TO WIN95 WHILE IN PREVIOUS DOS
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- If you have chosen Previous DOS and wish to return to Win95, simply go into the
- booter directory (wherever you installed 95booter), type 95B and press ENTER.
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- IF YOU DO NOT HAVE PREVIOUS DOS FILES
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- Some installations of Windows 95 do not save the previous dos information. This
- can still be easily done. You will need a copy of an old DOS boot disk. Any MS
- DOS version should work. I would suggest not using an original dos-boot disk.
- Use a copy of a dos-boot-disk instead. At the Windows 95 prompt (or in a window)
- Insert the dos-disk and type these lines:
-
- ATTRIB A:IO.SYS -S -H -R
- ATTRIB A:MSDOS.SYS -S -H -R
- COPY A:IO.SYS C:\IO.DOS
- COPY A:MSDOS.SYS C:\MSDOS.DOS
- COPY A:COMMAND.COM C:\COMMAND.DOS
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- This allows the old-dos files to be renamed *.DOS in your root directory.
- From there, The MultiBooter can function flawlessly!
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- You can do the same with PC-DOS, but the files need to be renamed. (IBMBIO.COM
- becomes IO.DOS and IBMCOM.COM becomes MSDOS.DOS)
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- HOW TO UN-INSTALL MULTI BOOTER
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- Go to the Booter Directory and re-run the INSTALL.EXE program.
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- COMMAND LINE OPTIONS
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- The Windows executable also features command line switches. They are as follows:
- DOS - Previous Dos boot
- PROMPT - Windows 95 Command Prompt boot
- MENU - Windows 95 Internal Menu
- GUI - Normal Win95 graphical boot-up
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- THE (MORE) OPTIONS
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- BootDelay is the time after "Starting..." but before it loads the config.sys
- For a fast boot-up, set it to 0 seconds.
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- BootMenuTimeout is the time to wait at the internal menu before the default
- choice is invoked. Usually 3 seconds is enough time for you to decide.
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- MULTIPLE DOS CONFIGURATIONS
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- Ultimate booter supports 3 dos configurations. This allows 3 different
- CONFIG/AUTOEXEC files.
- They can be edited and changed to your taste, they are CONFIG.1, CONFIG.2 and
- CONFIG.3 and the same goes for the AUTOEXEC files.
- Most people only need 1 previous dos configuration, therefore CONFIG.1 and
- AUTOEXEC.1 need to be modified for whatever drivers you need (himem and cdrom).
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- And, as always, I am not to be held responsible for anything that you may
- do wrong or can go wrong. There is no warranty for this program. You know the
- usual speech...
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