re: "Windows 98 is now starting your MS-DOS-BASED Program"
Tuesday, July 14, 2009 at 8:30 am
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by john frazier
(4 messages posted)
first off let me say this.
windows 98 does not need the config.sys or autoexec.bat located on the c:\ drive
it has its own located in windows.
you can go to start ,
click on run.
type msconfig.
when the menu comes up select
selective startup.
donot
select process cofig.sys file
or process autoexec.bat file
when done hit apply
and okay
your machine will now reboot
if you are still having trouble such as
windows is locked in dosboot mode.
goto the control panel
select system,
choose device manager,
go down through each listing,
you are looking for an unknown device.
it will tell you that it was added to to insure that windows was configured to run
an unknown program
remove it and reboot.
On Saturday, April 25, 2009 at 12:34 pm, gewg_ wrote:
>Justin wrote:
>|I have researched this problem
>|
>http://jellyfoot.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/attaboy.jpg
>
>|[...]i get this boot text:
>|"Windows 98 is now starting your MS-DOS-BASED Program"
>|[...]
>|It then boots into windows.
>|it doesnt lock up nor does it boot a dos program as far as i can tell.
>|
>You are using the word "boot" improperly, but I'll let that slide.
>
>|[...]A few weeks back it had a virus and the OS was replaced.
>|
>The **proper** way to deal with an infection is to FDISK the system.
>This is *beyond* what even a FORMAT will do;
>nuking the partition with FDISK will also get any Boot Sector viruses.[1]
>
>If you didn't have to re-install all your Windoze-compatible apps,
>you didn't handle this right.[1]
>
>|And thats when I noticed that the BOOT text has changed[...]
>|I checked the Config.sys and Autoexec.bat files
>|and there is nothing in them files that load any dos programs.
>|
>Well, *every* line in AUTOEXEC.BAT is either
>a DOS command
>a label to jump to
> or
>a remark
>--or at least that's the way it *should* be.
>
>|In fact i removed the autoexec and config sys
>|
>I ASSuME you mean you used MSCONFIG to disable processing of those.
>That's the proper move--unless you specifically want a DOS TSR running.
>
>|and IT STILL shows that same text.
>|It seems like it is displaying that text
>|before it even accesses the config.sys and autoexec.
>|
>|I read ON LINE that the only way for it to display that text
>|is IF a DOS based program is loading.
>
>By default, the Startup actions for Win9x will process (in this order):
>
>The Boot Sector of the boot device. If infected, you get what you get.
>
>IO.SYS - This loads the DOS kernel (Internal commands)
>
>MSDOS.SYS - Back in the days of Real DOS(tm),
> this contained additional Internal commands;
> with DOS 7, it contains Windoze config parameters.
>
>COMMAND.COM - The Command Processor for External commands.
>
>CONFIG.SYS - If not disabled in MSDOS.SYS, this loads DOS device drivers.
>
>AUTOEXEC.BAT - If not disabled in MSDOS.SYS,
> this runs anything the user / system configurer / old app installs
> thinks is apt to get the system to a usable DOS state.
>
>WIN.COM - Loads Windoze.
>
>
>An old batch file troubleshooting technique
>is to insert benign print-to-screen commands at points in the batch file:
>@ECHO Breakpoint1 reached
>.
>.
>.
>@ECHO Breakpoint2 reached
>.
>.
>.
>(etc.)
>
>If a command like one of those is the first line in AUTOEXEC.BAT,
>(or even one containing @ECHO **AUTOEXEC.BAT IS BEING PROCESSED**)
>it will show whether that file is, in fact, getting processed
>--especially if it is followed by a line containing
>PAUSE
>
>NOTE: If the first line of AUTOEXEC.BAT is
>WIN
>then anything else in that batch file won't be processed.
>
>
>[1] The abilities of The Black Hats
>long ago outstripped the abilities of the virus killer vendors to keep up.
>...and ONLY WINDOZE needs this nonsense.
>
>It's gotten to the point that switching to Linux
>is easier that continuing to struggle with Windoze-specific infections[2]
>--and the M$ OSes that allow those systems to be infected so easily.[3]
>
>Linux is MORE SECURE BY DESIGN (where Windoze is Defective By Design).
>Linux is also gratis--and libre (FREE).
>
>[2] ...not to mention that with Linux you get a 21st-Century OS.
>Ubuntu 9.04 was just released and the early reports are that it is just SMOKIN'.
>This is a version for lower-powered hardware:
>http://google.com/search?q=Xubuntu-9.04
>You can boot[4] to the CD and run Linux from the optical disk (a test drive)
>--WITHOUT **installing** anything.
>
>There are versions of Linux that are even less-demanding than that one.
>
>[3] The **only** safe way to run Windoze these days is inside a virtual machine.
>http://google.com/search?q=VirtualBox
>When you close the virtual session, all the infections and crap go poof.
>(VirtualBox is also Free Software--gratis and libre.)
>NOTE: A VM requires pretty $talwart hardware under it.
>
>[4] I used "boot" properly there.
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