re: Question about 'Replace the Ugly Startup and Shutdown Screens'
Sunday, November 25, 2001 at 5:41 am
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Bob Krijger
(2 messages posted)
Larry,
I believe that the msdos.sys file is not even adressed once the winboot.ini file
is found. Maybe
it is a leftover from win95 for compatability (msdos) reasons.
Actually I was looking for a solution how to get rid of the biosbootup screens. Have
you maybe a suggestion?
regards, Bob
On Friday, November 23, 2001 at 3:19 pm, Larry wrote:
>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.
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>So, the question becomes, why have two files processing the same lines, if windows
>first processes the winboot.ini file?
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>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.
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>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.
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>Whatever lines you place in the msdos.sys file can be
>safely used in the winboot.ini file.
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>Of course, you MUST BE VERY CAREFUL in editing either one of these and know what
>you're doing....
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>On Friday, November 23, 2001 at 9:43 am, Bob Krijger wrote:
>I have a question about Replace
>the Ugly Startup and Shutdown Screens:
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>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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