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- A few Notes on Windows 95:
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- I have been a Win95 Beta tester for months now. I haven't tried executor under
- the final "Egghead" (retail) Release, but here are a few tips.....
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- If one hits F8 at bootup they will get a prompt that will allow them to boot to
- command line. However, a better fix is to do this........
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- At a command line prompt (windowed or otherwise) type:
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- cd c:\
- attrib -s -r -h msdos.sys
- edit msdos.sys
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-
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- There is a line in that file that says something like:
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- BootGUI=1
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- change it to:
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- BootGUI=0
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- Then save it and type:
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- attrib +s +r +h msdos.sys
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- This will cause Win95 to boot to the command line by default not Windows (and
- Gates says Win95 isn't built on DOS...grin....).
-
- Anyways, Then you can create a startup menu in your config.sys just like you did
- in Dos 6.XX.
-
- I.E.
- config.sys:
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- [menu]
- menuitem=standard, Standard Bootup into Windows 95
- menuitem=basic, Basic Low Memort Bootup for Games, Etc. (DOS prompt)
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- [common]
- device=c:\windows\himem.sys
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- [standard]
- rem rem rem rem
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- [basic]
- device=c:\windows\emm386exe
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-
- Then you autoexec.bat might look like this:
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- goto %config%
-
- :standard
- win
- goto end
-
- :basic
- echo Low Memory Setup complete
- goto end
-
- :end
- echo .
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- This will make it prompt you at boot up with a menu of choices some which will
- boot you to windows and some which will not, each having it's own configuration
- as you might want it set up........Hope this helps you all out trying to get the
- optimal executor setup......I'll start playing with it later this week....
-
- Sean
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