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- From: "ron kulick" <ron.kulick@execnet.com>
- Newsgroups: bit.listserv.win3-l
- Subject: winstart.bat
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.701.9589@execnet>
- Date: 28 Dec 92 03:31:47 EST
- Reply-To: "ron kulick" <ron.kulick@execnet.com>
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- Organization: Executive Networks Information
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- In article <01GSGMO0603M96W1VJ@BNANDP51>
- Vincent D'Haeyere <INFSTDDHAEY@BNANDP51.BITNET> writes...
-
- VD<>Here is a little fact about Windows 3.0 and 3.1...
- >If Windows finds a WINSTART.BAT in its directory, it executes it just
- >displaying the Windows logo...
-
- VD<>Anything you can do in batch file, you can do in this one. It's up to
- >determine it's usefulness...
-
- For all TSRs that you want to be available in Windows, add their .EXE
- names to the file WINSTART.BAT, which is executed whenever Windows runs
- in 386 enhanced mode. These TSRs are not available in the virtual
- machines (VMs), leaving more room in conventional memory for the non-
- Windows applications. For more information about WINSTART.BAT, see
- Chapter 14, "Optimizing Windows," in the Windows Users Guide.
-
- The following table shows where a TSR is available (and using memory),
- depending on where it is launched.
-
- Where TSR TSR visible TSR visible in
- is launched in Windows? virtual machines?
-
- From MS-DOS Yes Yes, all virtual machines
- From WINSTART.BAT Yes No
- In a single virtual machine No - Only that virtual machine
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