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.
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