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re: autoexec.bat file Thursday, March 12, 2009 at 12:23 pm Posted by gewg_ (4444 messages posted) callmeri wrote: |Assume you have just acquired a new computer system, |what would be the contents of your Autoexec.bat file What DOS apps are you planning to run? http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/win98/1187018507 NOTE: I *DO* run AUTOEXEC.BAT so that I can have DOSKEY ready and waiting when I use the command line. If I didn't *specifically* want that, it would be a complete waste to process AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS (perhaps even a source of problems). http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/win98/1225583504 [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: autoexec.bat file Thursday, March 12, 2009 at 3:15 pm Posted by Keith Stanier (1655 messages posted) callmeri wrote: |Hi, |Assume you have just acquired a new computer system,what would be the contents of |your Autoexec.bat file Well you don't actually need the Autoexec.bat if your running Windows. As gewg says what do you need to run in DOS? My Config.sys DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\HIMEM.SYS DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\EMM386.EXE DOS=HIGH,UMB DEVICEHIGH=C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\display.sys con=(ega,,1) Country=044,437,C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\country.sys My Autoexec.bat @ECHO OFF SET SOUND=C:\PROGRA~1\CREATIVE\CTSND SET MIDI=SYNTH:1 MAP:E MODE:0 SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 H5 P330 E620 T6 MODE con codepage prepare=((437) C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\EGA.CPI) MODE con codepage select=437 LH KEYB uk,,C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\KEYBOARD.SYS Echo Y|If Exist C:\Windows\Temp\*.* Del C:\Windows\Temp\*.* >Nul SET DIRCMD=/O:GN SET SOUND/SET MIDI/SET BLASTER are just for the sound card in DOS if I ever need it. Echo Y|If Exist C:\Windows\Temp\*.* Del C:\Windows\Temp\*.* >Nul Just deletes any files in the Windows\Temp folder on startup. SET DIRCMD=/O:GN Just shows files alphabetically in DOS. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: autoexec.bat file Thursday, March 12, 2009 at 8:20 pm Posted by Arminius (334 messages posted) If by your question you mean: "What should AUTOEXEC.BAT contain after a clean install of win98?" The answer is NOTHING. It should be blank. AUTOEXEC.BAT is sometimes used by third party software to load their programs at boot up. Software for sound cards, virus scanners, and the like. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: autoexec.bat file Thursday, March 12, 2009 at 9:14 pm Posted by gewg_ (4444 messages posted) Arminius wrote: |AUTOEXEC.BAT is sometimes used by third party software |to load their programs at boot up. | 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. | 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). [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: autoexec.bat file Thursday, March 12, 2009 at 9:31 pm Posted by Arminius (334 messages posted) I hear what you are saying. The original question wasn't about running DOS apps however. Have a look at the entries Keith Stanier has in his in AUTOEXEC.BAT file (see his reply in this thread). Creative sound card and a keyboard. As for the virus scanner, I am thinking back to McAfee Virus Scan 4.51. The option to insert a command into AUTOEXEC.BAT was available as recently as McAfee Virus Scan version 7. Admittedly that was several years ago. If you have McAfee Virus Scan Commandline, the option to insert a command into the AUTOEXEC.BAT file is still there, although not for much longer as the latest Virus Scan engine has dropped support for DOS and the 9x line. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: autoexec.bat file Thursday, March 12, 2009 at 11:23 pm Posted by gewg_ (4444 messages posted) Arminius wrote: |[...]McAfee Virus Scan 4.51. The option to insert a command into AUTOEXEC.BAT |was available as recently as McAfee Virus Scan version 7[...] Any software house that doesn't realize that AUTOEXEC.BAT can be bypassed in Windoze shouldn't be writing software for Windoze. This far down the road from Win95, that goes for any turkeys that can't produce a proper installer/uninstaller. ...and McAfee has sucked for a LONG time--on any level. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: autoexec.bat file Thursday, March 12, 2009 at 11:52 pm Posted by Arminius (334 messages posted) As I said, the command placed in the AUTOEXEC.BAT file was an OPTION, it was up to the user whether to have it or not. I guess McAfee figured by including a line in the AUTOEXEC.BAT file, the user would be able to remove an infection from their system from DOS in the event Windoze would not boot. [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 98 Discussion Forum