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Question about 'Do I still need CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT?'
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Question about 'Do I still need CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT?'
Wednesday, January 16, 2002 at 10:24 am
Posted by Jason
(1 messages posted)
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it continues to meet the need, regardless of our "outdated" it is described by some...
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re: Question about 'Do I still need CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT?'
Wednesday, January 16, 2002 at 2:07 pm
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it continues to meet the need, regardless of our "outdated" it is described by some...
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re: Question about 'Do I still need CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT?'
Thursday, January 17, 2002 at 5:38 am
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?:
>
>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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re: Question about 'Do I still need CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT?'
Tuesday, January 29, 2002 at 4:39 pm
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?:
>
>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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