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- Using QEMM Optimize and the Windows 95 Startup Menu
-
- Quarterdeck Technical Note #312 Filename: W95BOOT.TEC
- by Jeff Sutyla CompuServe: W95BOOT.TEC
- Last revised: 11/01/95 Category: QEMM
-
- Subject: Using Windows 95's Startup Menu to Optimize a previous
- version of DOS.
-
- If you installed Windows 95 over an older version of DOS, you may
- have a multiple configuration Startup Menu that displays when you
- boot your system. The Startup Menu lets you pick the
- configuration you want to use during bootup. For example, you
- might have installed Windows 95 into a new directory rather than
- installing over Windows 3.1. At times, you may want to boot into
- Windows 3.1 instead of Windows 95.
-
- If you use a Windows 95 Startup menu, you must make sure that
- QEMM's Optimize boots into the same menu option each time
- Optimize reboots your system. In this technote we tell you how
- to set up a Windows 95 Startup Menu, select a default menu
- option, and how to run Optimize using this default menu choice.
-
- 1. Boot your computer and watch for the message "Starting Windows
- 95". When you see this message, press the F8 key quickly. If
- one of the choices is "Previous Version of DOS", note the
- number of that choice and write it down. Choose "Normal" and
- boot to Windows 95.
-
- 2. When Windows 95 has booted up, choose "Shutdown" from the
- Start Menu, and then choose "Restart to DOS".
-
- 3. Make sure you are in the Windows 95 version of DOS by typing:
-
- VER <enter>
-
- If you see "Windows 95" on your screen, continue with Step 4.
- If you do not see the "Windows 95" message, you likely have a
- problem with your Windows 95 installation. Please consult
- your Windows 95 documentation for assistance with this
- problem, and do not continue with this technote.
-
- 4. In order to enable the Windows 95 Boot Menu feature, you must
- make modifications to Windows 95's MSDOS.SYS configuration
- file. Type the following:
-
- CD \ <enter>
- ATTRIB -S -H -R MSDOS.SYS <enter>
- COPY MSDOS.SYS MSDOS.QDK
- EDIT MSDOS.SYS <enter>
-
- 5. Add the following to the [Options] section of MSDOS.SYS:
-
- BootMulti=1 ;Win95 Multi-Boot Configuration enabled
- BootMenu=1 ;Win95 Multi-Boot Menu displayed by
- ;default
- BootMenuDelay=5 ;Seconds to delay menu selection
- BootMenuDefault=x ;Boots to item number x after the
- ;boot menu delay
-
- Note: If you did not make a note of the menu number for "Previous
- Version of DOS", do not add the BootMenuDefault= line.
- Instead, press the keys <ALT-F> <X> <Y> to save the file,
- then reboot the computer. When the Startup Menu displays,
- make note of the menu number for "Previous Version of DOS",
- then boot to the "Command Prompt Only" selection. Edit
- MSDOS.SYS again, and add the BootMenuDefault= line. Press
- the keys <ALT-F> <X> <Y> to save the file.
-
- 6. Type:
-
- ATTRIB +S +H +R MSDOS.SYS <enter>
-
- 7. Re-boot your system. (If you end up in Windows 95, select
- "Shut Down" from the Start menu, then select "Restart in MS
- DOS mode".) Then type:
-
- C:\QEMM\OPTIMIZE <enter>
-
- to OPTIMIZE your previous version of DOS.
-
- 8. If you want to boot to WINDOWS 95 by default, follow these
- steps. (If you do not, you are finished with this technote.)
-
- Re-boot and choose NORMAL (choice 1) on the Startup Menu.
-
- When WINDOWS 95 appears, choose "Shut Down" from the Startup
- Menu, then choose "Restart to DOS".
-
- Type the following:
-
- CD\ <enter>
- ATTRIB -S -H -R MSDOS.SYS <enter>
- EDIT MSDOS.SYS <enter>
-
- Place a semi-colon (;) before BootMenuDefault in the MSDOS.SYS
- file.
-
- Press the keys <ALT-F> <X> <Y> one after the other to return
- to a DOS prompt, then type:
-
- ATTRIB +S +H +R MSDOS.SYS <enter>
-
- Now, when you boot your system the Startup Menu will be
- displayed for 5 seconds and then WINDOWS 95 will automatically
- start.
-
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