re: Question about 'Do I still need CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT?' Saturday, August 2, 2003 at 10:17 pm Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Lee (243 messages posted) What is a subfile? win98 as a fresh install typically has a 0 byte autoexec.bat file and no config.sys file at all. I would suggest that one might need at least a 0 byte file named autoexec.bat or your old autoexec.bat file will get resurected from the dead every time? Try renaming it to .old extension and then make a new blank one with notepad, save it to C:\ root folder and reboot. Got any drivers or programs that you know must be loaded from autoexec.bat file? Copy and paste those from .old file to new one. Then reboot. On Saturday, August 2, 2003 at 6:05 am, Bernie Reilly wrote: >My Windows 98 would not boot until I disabled autoexec.bat, when I look into the >details of that file the last subfile is a long sting of nonsense, I tried to disable >it, but it got checked again when I booted with autoexec.bat engaged. How can I delete >that nonsense subfile from autoexec.bat? I do have the original system disc, I fear >if I try to load that it will erase all existing material. > > Written in response to: Question about 'Do I still need CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT?' (Bernie Reilly: Saturday, August 2, 2003 at 6:05 am) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] Question about 'Do I still need CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT?' (Bernie Reilly: Sat, Aug 2, 2003, 6:05 am) re: Question about 'Do I still need CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT?' (Bob G: Sat, Aug 2, 2003, 6:34 am) re: Question about 'Do I still need CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT?' (mark: Sat, Aug 2, 2003, 8:33 am) re: Question about 'Do I still need CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT?' (Rodney: Sat, Aug 2, 2003, 10:11 am) re: Question about 'Do I still need CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT?' (Ken: Sat, Aug 2, 2003, 6:39 am) re: Question about 'Do I still need CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT?' (Lee: Sat, Aug 2, 2003, 10:17 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 98 Discussion Forum