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re: Question about 'Do I still need CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT?'
Thursday, October 24, 2002 at 4:39 am
Posted by GM
(4 messages posted)
and the question would be.........??
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re: Question about 'Do I still need CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT?'
Thursday, October 24, 2002 at 5:27 am
Posted by gossy
(5 messages posted)
Not unless you want to use DOS, want to boot from CD-Rom in Dos, if yr BIOS doesnt
support CDROM boot, or you want to play DOS games?
Gossy
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re: Question about 'Do I still need CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT?'
Thursday, October 24, 2002 at 10:50 am
Posted by Paul D
(2162 messages posted)
Windows doesn't need them - you might. What do you have
in them?
On Thursday, October 24, 2002 at 4:23 am, Mel Walters wrote:
>I have a question about Do
>I still need CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT?:
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re: Question about 'Do I still need CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT?'
Thursday, October 24, 2002 at 2:31 pm
Posted by Mel Walters
(4 messages posted)
I Have:
CONFIG.SYS......................
DEVICE=C:\windows\PANNING\HIMEM.SYS
DEVICE=c:\WINDOWS\EMM.386EXE x=COOO-CFF
AUTOEXE.BAT......................
rem-By windows setup- C:\windows\command\mscdex/dimscdoo/v
On Thursday, October 24, 2002 at 10:50 am, Paul D wrote:
>Windows doesn't need them - you might. What do you have
>in them?
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re: Question about 'Do I still need CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT?'
Thursday, October 24, 2002 at 6:11 pm
Posted by Mel Walters
(4 messages posted)
It was SUGGESTED I delete the CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT files. Tried it and windows
booted right up A FEW TIMES. The question is...do I have to delete their entire page
somehow?
On Thursday, October 24, 2002 at 4:39 am, GM wrote:
>and the question would be.........??
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re: Question about 'Do I still need CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT?'
Thursday, October 24, 2002 at 7:48 pm
Posted by Oh_dear
(1415 messages posted)
What do you mean - "their entire page". If you deleted the files named autoexec.bat
and config.sys, that should be it. What information is on this page you mention?
On Thursday, October 24, 2002 at 6:11 pm, Mel Walters wrote:
>It was SUGGESTED I delete the CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT files. Tried it and windows
>booted right up A FEW TIMES. The question is...do I have to delete their entire
page
>somehow?
>
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re: Question about 'Do I still need CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT?'
Friday, October 25, 2002 at 12:59 am
Posted by Paul D
(2162 messages posted)
The only line in your autoexec.bat is a comment, so it's
not doing anything. You can delete that.Config.sys is installing DOS memory managers,
but I can't remember their exact purpose. Probably only useful when you boot to DOS.
Rename the file (config.old or something like that) and just let it sit there. Then
if needs be you can reclaim it.
On Thursday, October 24, 2002 at 2:31 pm, Mel Walters wrote:
>I Have:
>CONFIG.SYS......................
>DEVICE=C:\windows\PANNING\HIMEM.SYS
>DEVICE=c:\WINDOWS\EMM.386EXE x=COOO-CFF
>
>AUTOEXE.BAT......................
>rem-By windows setup- C:\windows\command\mscdex/dimscdoo/v
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re: Question about 'Do I still need CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT?'
Friday, November 7, 2003 at 8:06 pm
Posted by john
(2 messages posted)
I'm having a problem with partition magic. I'm trying to delete the partition (i
only have one in fat32 format as my hd isn't v big) But i get the error 993: Partition
contains open files. Use op. system check utility. . I then get error 58: Unable
to write boot sector. Virus protection software may be running.
I've tried doing a scandisk to fix the errors. But it still doesn't let me. Do i
need to delete config.sys and autoexec.bat. If so how do i do this in dos:
"del autoexec.bat" and "del config.sys" in the c directory?
Thanks
On Friday, October 25, 2002 at 12:59 am, Paul D wrote:
>The only line in your autoexec.bat is a comment, so it's
>not doing anything. You can delete that.Config.sys is installing DOS memory managers,
>but I can't remember their exact purpose. Probably only useful when you boot to
DOS.
>Rename the file (config.old or something like that) and just let it sit there. Then
>if needs be you can reclaim it.
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:)
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re: Question about 'Do I still need CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT?'
Friday, November 7, 2003 at 8:35 pm
Posted by john
(2 messages posted)
It is not letting me delete config.sys or autoexec.bat. it is saying they are protected.
How do i delete them!!
On Friday, November 7, 2003 at 8:06 pm, john wrote:
>I'm having a problem with partition magic. I'm trying to delete the partition (i
>only have one in fat32 format as my hd isn't v big) But i get the error 993: Partition
>contains open files. Use op. system check utility. . I then get error 58: Unable
>to write boot sector. Virus protection software may be running.
>
>I've tried doing a scandisk to fix the errors. But it still doesn't let me. Do i
>need to delete config.sys and autoexec.bat. If so how do i do this in dos:
>"del autoexec.bat" and "del config.sys" in the c directory?
>
>Thanks
>
>
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re: Question about 'Do I still need CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT?'
Sunday, October 24, 2004 at 9:52 pm
Posted by kkk
(1 messages posted)
lookup ATTRIB symantics in DOS (jus type attrib /?)
then take off all attributes of the two files (shoud be like attrib -h -s c:\autoex~1.bat)
then del or deltree the two files...
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