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re: Question about 'Do I still need CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT?'
Tuesday, March 18, 2003 at 9:30 am
Windows Me Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by John
(1 messages posted)
If you do not have legacy drivers (and judging from what's here, even if you do have
legacy drivers), you don't need this stuff. The SET BLASTER part is telling Windows
the DMA, IRQ, and other stuff for a Sound Blaster card.
Most of the rest is about paths, that post Windows 3.11 is done internally. The
Prompt $p$g is how the command prompt will look. The COMSPEC specifies what command
interpreter you're using, which was useless even in the olden days.
Get rid of it, leave it, frankly doesn't matter...
On Sunday, November 24, 2002 at 4:24 am, Rod Gayford wrote:
>I have a question about Do
>I still need CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT?:
>My Autoexecbat file in ME contains the folowing:-
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>SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 T4
>SET PATH=C:\PROGRA~1\COMMON~1\MICROS~1\MSInfo\;;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND
>SET PROMPT=$p$g
>SET TEMP=C:\WINDOWS\TEMP
>SET TMP=C:\WINDOWS\TEMP
>SET COMSPEC=C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND.COM
>SET windir=C:\WINDOWS
>SET winbootdir=C:\WINDOWS
>I cannot get rid of these entries. I do not have any legacy hardware. Can anyone
>suggest what is loading these devices. I understand the blaster is the sound card
>loading a legacy driver for DOS but how can I stop it.
>Cheers
>
>Rod Gayford
>
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