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re: Question about 'Do I still need CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT?'
Thursday, November 25, 2004 at 5:05 am
Windows Me Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by John T. Mood, SFO
(2 messages posted)
Rod,
You're confusing device drivers with environment variables. All of the lines in the
autoexec.bat you listed are environment variables. Your system needs most, if not
all of them. The set blaster line is particularly useful if you play any games based
in DOS, not Wndows, like older versions of Castle Wolfenstien, or DOOM, QUAKE, or
other games of that type. If you remove it, you won't have any sound in your DOS
based games.
You won't save any memory (to speak of) and you won't have any confllicts if you
leave them alone.
If you had a device driver, your batch file lines would refer to them with a DOS
filename ending with .COM .EXE or even .SYS
Those you can stop from executing by adding REM to the first FOUR characters in the
line involved. FOUR means to include the [SPACE] character after the REM, i.e. :
REM MOUSE.COM
would stop your system from loading the mouse driver.
I hope this helps!
Good luck!
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:-
>
>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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