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re: Question about 'Do I still need CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT?'
Thursday, January 17, 2002 at 5:38 am
Windows 95 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Steve Easton
(5183 messages posted)
Jason, I would think that a user who is advanced enough to use sysedit to investigate/question
the contents of config.sys and autoexec.bat, is also advanced enough to know what
should and shouldn't be deleted. And also, that they could use dosstart.bat to enable
any "legacy" devices if need be.
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?:
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>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.
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>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it continues to meet the need, regardless of our "outdated" it is described by some...
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