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re: Question about 'Do I still need CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT?'
Wednesday, September 4, 2002 at 2:56 am
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Posted by Mr.Cleaner (2 messages posted)

Thanks Mr.JohnE I was facing problem of DATE on DOS Prompt as mm/dd/yyyy, I did as you told (except keyboard.sys) and my problem solved with CODE PAGE : 850 , COUNTRY : 44. Language ID : UK, Now my DOS Prompt in WINDOWS ME showing the date in format of dd/mm/yyyy. Thanks a lot, god bless you.

On Monday, January 28, 2002 at 11:41 am, JohnE wrote:

>Just some information for anyone who is having this problem.... The solution is 
VERY 
>obscure but I found it in the end and it goes as follows:-
>
>Open a DOS window and type MSCONFIG. The System Configuration Utility should start. 
>If it doesn't, change directory to "C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND" and try again. Once the 
SCU 
>is open, select the "International" tab and select your appropriate language setting. 
>After the various fields have been filled in, look at the one named "Keyboard Data 
>File Name". No matter what it says in this field, delete the entry and simply type 
>"keyboard.sys" (omitting the quotation marks). DON'T type in any specific path name. 
>Re-start your computer and bingo!
>
>I believe that this problem only affects Windows ME, but feel free to correct me 
>if you encounter it on another OS.
>
>JohnE
>






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re: Question about 'Do I still need CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT?' (JohnE: Monday, January 28, 2002 at 11:41 am)


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re: Question about 'Do I still need CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT?' (Peter: Tuesday, March 18, 2003 at 8:08 am)

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Question about 'Do I still need CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT?' (JohnE: Sat, Jan 26, 2002, 10:33 am)

re: Question about 'Do I still need CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT?' (JohnE: Mon, Jan 28, 2002, 11:41 am)

re: Question about 'Do I still need CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT?' (Mr.Cleaner: Wed, Sep 4, 2002, 2:56 am)

re: Question about 'Do I still need CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT?' (Peter: Tue, Mar 18, 2003, 8:08 am)

re: Question about 'Do I still need CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT?' (lepelke: Thu, May 1, 2003, 10:00 am)

re: Question about 'Do I still need CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT?' (ben: Tue, Jun 10, 2003, 11:33 am)

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