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- SySwitch is designed to make it easy to switch
- between up to five alternative SYSTEM.INI file
- configurations. You might, for instance, have
- alternative SYSTEM.X files for use with different
- screen drivers or different Windows shells.
-
- SYSWITCH.EXE, VBPOINT.DLL and SYS2.TXT should all
- be placed in your WINDOWS directory.
-
- Before you can put SySwitch to use, you'll
- have to create the alternative SYSTEM.INI files that
- you'll use with it, copying your current SYSTEM.INI
- to them, making the changes that you want, and
- then giving them names like
- SYSTEM.800 for a version of SYSTEM.INI that
- uses an 800x600 video driver, or SYSTEM.NDW
- for a version that uses Norton Desktop as the
- Windows shell.
-
- Next, run SySwitch and select the Configure option
- on its file menu. Select the alternative driver that
- you want to change on the drop down list box (all
- five alternatives will read "Default" the first time
- you run SySwitch. Then use the edit boxes below
- to enter a name for your alternative configuration,
- and to designate the name of the SYSTEM.INI
- alternative that it should use.
-
- For instance, you might name one alternative:
- Norton Desktop, 800x600x16 display
- and identify SYSTEM.NOR as the configuration file.
- SYSTEM.NOR would be a copy of your standard SYSTEM.INI
- file in which you'd changed
-
- SHELL=PROGRMAN.EXE
- to
- SHELL=NDW.EXE
-
- and
-
- DISPLAY.DRV=VGA.DRV
- to
- DISPLAY.DRV=VGA800.DRV.
-
-
- You have to create these alternative files outside of
- SySwitch.
-
-
- Once you've made your changes on the File Configure
- screen, click OK to save them (SySwitch saves
- its own configuration information in a file
- called SYSWITCH.INI in your Windows directory)
- or Cancel to abandon the changes.
- When you press restart, SySwitch deletes SYSTEM.BAK,
- renames SYSTEM.INI SYSTEM.BAK, copies
- the specified configuration file to SYSTEM.INI,
- and then restarts Windows.
-
- Warning, the configuration file you specify must
- be a valid SYSTEM.INI-type file, or Windows will
- not run. In the event that this happens, copy
- SYSTEM.BAK to SYSTEM.INI to restore you previous
- configuration.
-
- Many of the routines used here were borrowed from
- other applications available on the MSBASIC forum.
- Specifically, I found the CopyFile routine in
- the VBTIPS.TXT file, the 3D Frame routine is a
- variation of that used in the VB-TIPS Reader,
- and the RestartProc routine is detailed in the
- MOREAPI.ZIP file. Version 2.0 of SySwitch also makes
- use of Jonathan Zuck's VBPOINT.DLL. My thanks to
- the authors of each routine.
-
- Paul Bonner
- Senior Editor
- PC/Computing
- Compuserve ID: 76000,13
- MCI Mail: PBONNER
-
- ==============================================
- 2.01 Changes
- Configure listbox & Lalal option buttons linked
- Text in Configure edit boxes selected when get focus
- Fixed Windows directory caption
- ==============================================
- 2.02 Changes
- Fixed cancel button on Config screen so it works as
- advertised
- Added Instructions menu item
- ==============================================
-