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re: Question about 'Do I still need CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT?'
Wednesday, October 24, 2001 at 1:31 pm
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Posted by Charles R. Meyer (1 messages posted)

Curt, I was having the same problem: I tried to edit Autoexec.bat under Win-me, and the file got renamed Autoexec.bak and was replaced with the original one. When I tried to follow your suggestion to execute "msconfig" I did not find the Autoexec.bat tab you referred to. What to do? ---Charles R. Meyer (meyerc@ecn.purdue.edu)

On Sunday, August 19, 2001 at 2:55 pm, Curt R wrote:
>

True, you are using one sector, but unless your hard drive is like a 212 MB I
>can't see why you'ld worry about it. I know with the size of drives today one needn't
>worry about small files like that. I used to clean everything off my old 212 MB
>hard drive on my old DOS/win 3.x machine, but then, you had to. I was quite happy
>when hard drives got bigger and cheaper (don't ask me what I paid for the 850 MB
>drive I replaced the old 212 with......or how much less the last drive I bought was....the
>15 GB......LOL) Let me know if editing the autoexec.bat in msconfig worked. I haven't
>really tried adding anything in there myself yet.......only moved or rem'd items.

>
>

>On Saturday, August 18, 2001 at 11:22 pm, John S Mathwin wrote:
>
>Thanks Curt,
>
>even zero byte files take up one sector, and I think that if you try to edit Config.sys
>
>the same thing happens as with autoexec.bat. I'll certainly
>
>give your tip a bash though.

Written in response to:
re: Question about 'Do I still need CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT?' (Curt R: Sunday, August 19, 2001 at 2:55 pm)

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re: Question about 'Do I still need CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT?' (Bill H: Wednesday, December 26, 2001 at 5:18 am)

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Question about 'Do I still need CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT?' (John S Mathwin: Thu, Aug 16, 2001, 10:09 pm)

re: Question about 'Do I still need CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT?' (Y2kaos: Thu, Mar 21, 2002, 4:37 am)

re: Question about 'Do I still need CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT?' (Rodrigo: Thu, Jul 25, 2002, 11:47 pm)

re: Answer to: Question about 'Do I still need CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT?' (Ra: Fri, Nov 7, 2003, 9:40 am)

re: Question about 'Do I still need CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT?' (Curt R: Fri, Aug 17, 2001, 8:24 am)

re: Question about 'Do I still need CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT?' (Brandon H: Mon, Nov 12, 2001, 7:53 am)

re: Question about 'Do I still need CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT?' (fitz: Wed, Dec 26, 2001, 9:27 pm)

re: Question about 'Do I still need CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT?' (John S Mathwin: Sat, Aug 18, 2001, 11:22 pm)

re: Question about 'Do I still need CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT?' (Curt R: Sun, Aug 19, 2001, 2:55 pm)

re: Question about 'Do I still need CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT?' (Charles R. Meyer: Wed, Oct 24, 2001, 1:31 pm)

re: Question about 'Do I still need CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT?' (Bill H: Wed, Dec 26, 2001, 5:18 am)

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