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re: Question about 'Do I still need CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT?'
Wednesday, December 26, 2001 at 5:18 am
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Posted by Bill H (1 messages posted)

Best bet for these files is to disable them,, not delete them,,,you will get a great boost in performance,,if you go to Run,,, type MSCONFIG, When the Window opens,, check Selective Startup,,,, uncheck the subject items,,,,,start from there, then add whatever you want to Run,,,, on start up,,,,,,

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

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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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