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re: Question about 'Do I still need CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT?'
Tuesday, January 29, 2002 at 4:39 pm
Windows 95 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Cliff Armstrong
(100 messages posted)
Find out for yourself if you need them! Press F8 when you boot, choose "step by step
confirmation", and say "n" to config.sys and autoexec.bat, "y" to everything else.
If Windows doesn't start, you need them. If it starts, try all the software you would
run, and if everything runs, rename the two files to ".old" so you can get them back
if you ever need them. My 'puter starts about 30 seconds faster since I did this.
Hope this helps.
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it continues to meet the need, regardless of our "outdated" it is described by some...
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