re: Question about 'Replace the Ugly Startup and Shutdown Screens'
Friday, November 23, 2001 at 3:19 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Larry
(276 messages posted)
This is true --- I found this as a speedup tip, sometime ago, on another site.
I routinely use this file, as I would the msdos.sys file.
So, the question becomes, why have two files processing the same lines, if windows
first processes the winboot.ini file?
Supposedly, you don't even need the msdos.sys file, BUT, I believe certain programs
DO check for it's existence -- so, I simply rem'd out my msdos.sys file lines.
No problems, everything runs just fine.
Does this actually save time on bootup? Supposedly.
It's just one of those built in things that I chose to
take advantage of and it doesn't hurt anything.
Whatever lines you place in the msdos.sys file can be
safely used in the winboot.ini file.
Of course, you MUST BE VERY CAREFUL in editing either one of these and know what
you're doing....
On Friday, November 23, 2001 at 9:43 am, Bob Krijger wrote:
>I have a question about Replace
>the Ugly Startup and Shutdown Screens:
>
>
>Be aware that if there is a winboot.ini file in your root dir, which has the same
>content as the msdos.sys, win 98se looks first for the winboot.ini file. So if you
> change the msdos.sys nothing will happen. I found out.
>Regards, Bob
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