re: Question about 'Do I still need CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT?'
Thursday, November 25, 2004 at 5:23 am
Windows Me Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by John T. Mood, SFO
(2 messages posted)
Actually, the path information is still required by some programs, and everything
is not done internally by Windows. Windows does load some things internally, but
not everything. It's still there to allow for both current programs, and for legacy
program compatibility.
The SET COMSPEC variable is also important to many systems, as it allows you to load
an alternative operating system, and in some cases, a system file can be hidden to
protect the file from being tampered with by someone with malicious intent.
Removing and/or changing your CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT files can stop some programs,
even Windows based ones from functioning properly.
Tinker if you like, but you might want to save copies of your files in a ZIP archive
before you edit them and end up needing to restore them to their previous state.
Good luck!
On Tuesday, March 18, 2003 at 9:30 am, John wrote:
>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...
>
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