re: autoexec.bat file
Thursday, March 12, 2009 at 9:14 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by gewg_
(3939 messages posted)
Arminius wrote:
|AUTOEXEC.BAT is sometimes used by third party software
|to load their programs at boot up.
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DOS programs or Win 3.x-related stuff.
This hasn't been an issue for well over a decade.
|Software for sound cards, virus scanners, and the like.
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DOS device drivers.
...and I haven't seen a DOS-based anti-malware app in a LONG time.
As stated, if you're not going to run DOS apps in a DOS box
and you don't have some specific task with a specific purpose that runs under DOS,
all of this is just wasted time at Startup.
If you're going to be running a real DOS app of any consequence
(e.g. a DOS game), just start in Real DOS(tm).
...and this all happens BEFORE Windoze loads,
so it's USELESS for any Windoze stuff.
Any settings useful to Windoze are in the Registry or in an *.INI file.
Any apps that are useful under Windoze have to be started AFTER Windoze loads
(unless someone here in 2009 can name a TSR he still runs).
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- re: autoexec.bat file (Arminius: Thursday, March 12, 2009 at 8:20 pm)
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