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re: Changes done in config.sys file not getting saved
Friday, November 23, 2007 at 9:27 am
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Ed
(570 messages posted)
The reported symptom which you are complaining of is the default behaviour of Windows
ME, which does not allow any modification of the autoexec.bat or config.sys files.
This behaviour does not ordinarily occur in Win 98.
Are you certain that the system you are using is Win 98? It sounds rather like the
behaviour of a system after it has been upgraded from Win 98 to Win ME.
If any "fixes" have been applied to a Win 98 system, that have included upgrading
some of the system files to their Win ME equivalents, this behaviour might also be
experienced. For example, the well known Axel upgrades at http://www.mdgx.com/web.htm#WME
might conceivably cause this.
Win ME only allows environment variables in the autoexec.bat and config.sys files,
and stores other variables in a registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\SessionManager\Environment
In a Win ME system the installation of real mode drivers might be possible, by manually
adding them in that key. But the mixing of real mode and protected mode drivers might
cause system instability.
Protected operating system files is a concept that was introduced with Win ME, there
was no equivalent to it in Win 98. But that is what you seem to be describing.
Ed
On Wednesday, November 21, 2007 at 9:29 pm, Suja Suresh wrote:
>I have a foxpro application in my win 98 system. It needs some commands in config.sys
>file. I added two commands to config.sys file and saved the file. But on restart
>the commands gets erased and a blank config.sys file appears. How do I get the old
>config.sys file after restarting the system.
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