re: exit windows 2000 to DOS
Wednesday, May 15, 2002 at 7:36 am
Posted by Nill
(1 messages posted)
Windows 2000 does not come with DOS. You can go to Start>Run> and type in "cmd" and
this will give you a command prompt. You can enter the correct path to execute your
game but, it might not work depending on what version of DOS it was intended to run
with.
On Wednesday, May 15, 2002 at 6:47 am, scottie wrote:
>I have a question about How
>to Exit to DOS:
>PLEASE COULD YOU TELL ME HOW TO EXIT WINDOWS 2000 TO DOS AS I HAVE SOME GAMES FOR
>MY DAUGHTER THAT ONLY WORK IN DOSS?
>
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re: exit windows 2000 to DOS
Saturday, May 18, 2002 at 3:00 am
Posted by phil d
(8 messages posted)
Unlike win 95/98/me, win2k and xp are not based on dos, they're based on microsoft
NT (new technology). DOS was the original, very basic operating system - and microsoft
decided to make it more user friendly by bastardising it with their own crap - the
result was windows. NT was a completely new operating system void of all dos, as
dos is very old and basic, and became the slow point for windows. Hence, if you did
a clean install of win2k, then you won't have any version of dos installed. You can
still get a copy of dos, and install it later though. If you did an upgrade from
95/98/me, then the original copy of DOS that was originally there should still be
there. If you do have a version of dos installed, win2k sees it as another operating
system, and you now have a dual boot computer - you have to choose which system (win2k
or dos) you want to boot from each time the computer starts up.
phil d
On Wednesday, May 15, 2002 at 6:47 am, scottie wrote:
>I have a question about How
>to Exit to DOS:
>PLEASE COULD YOU TELL ME HOW TO EXIT WINDOWS 2000 TO DOS AS I HAVE SOME GAMES FOR
>MY DAUGHTER THAT ONLY WORK IN DOSS?
>
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