re: Question about 'Do I still need CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT?'
Wednesday, January 16, 2002 at 2:07 pm
Windows 95 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Correction!
(2 messages posted)
The article actually reads "For the most part, neither of thes files are needed.",
which to me implies that this advice doesn't apply in all cases.
It also goes on to use "Ideally..." and "Generally..." rather than tell anyone to
just delete them, and it does describe what can be in the files.
I think you are reading something into this that simply isn't there. The article
isn't giving advice to delete the files and hang the consequences, and (as you have
done), anyone can question this on the forum to see what should be done in their
particular case.
For a 'professional' you don't read technical articles that carefully.
By the way, advice is spelt with a 'c', not an 's'.
On Wednesday, January 16, 2002 at 10:24 am, Jason wrote:
>I have a comment about Do
>I still need CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT?:
>
>This seems to be pretty careless advise. There are any number of machines out there
>that may be running legacy hardware or software that still needs these support files.
>
>For example, if you run any DOS software, deleting these files may cause that software
>to not run anymore.
>
>Regarding the "it is probably not worth keeping" comment, my advise as a computer
>professional is that any piece of hardware or software is worth keeping as long
as
>it continues to meet the need, regardless of our "outdated" it is described by some...
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