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re: Question about 'Boot Directly into DOS'
Thursday, December 29, 2005 at 7:30 am
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Posted by Terri (1 messages posted)

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On Tuesday, July 23, 2002 at 3:23 am, paul smith wrote:
>you can get to a dos prompt by making a shortcut to
>command.exe....right click the desktop, click new, click shortcut, click browse.
> locate the COMMAND file (likely located in c:\windows\), click next, click finish...
>a shortcut to ms-dos will appear.
>
>you an also drag and drop the icon to the start button if you would rather it appear
>on the start menu (click on the start button to see it, it will be near the top)
>
>you may have to right lick the shortcut to dos icon and click properties to make
>some changes to make some dos programs run.
>
>under the properties menu, click the progrem tab and put a checkmark next to prevent
>dos programs form detecting windows....try changing settings under the memory tab
>if you need to, you may try selecting "protected" and "uses HMA", and you may try
>different settings in the conventional, expanded, extended, and DPMI memory boxes,
>it probably wont hurt to use the highest settings possible...under the MISC tab,
>you may want to disable screen saver.
>
>you can also get to a command prompt by getting to the startup menu- while the computer
>is first turning on, tap the F8 key a few times (be persistant) and if you do it
>right, a text menu will appear. you should be able to choose from about 5 differnt
>options, one being command prompt, which will take you to a dos prompt. Be warned
>if you do this, most windows drivers will not be installed, so you may not have support
>for sound, printers, etc...
>
>I have also seen tweaks available for download by typing dos in windows ME into google
>or yahoo, but I have been too chicken to try them out....
>hope this helps!
>
>

Written in response to:: re: Question about 'Boot Directly into DOS' (paul smith: Tuesday, July 23, 2002 at 3:23 am)

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Question about 'Boot Directly into DOS' (Jerry Sisler: Thu, Jun 13, 2002, 11:02 pm)

re: Question about 'Boot Directly into DOS' (Jack Gulley: Thu, Jun 13, 2002, 11:48 pm)

re: Question about 'Boot Directly into DOS' (P. Hedges: Fri, Jul 19, 2002, 3:49 am)

re: Question about 'Boot Directly into DOS' (paul smith: Tue, Jul 23, 2002, 3:23 am)

re: Question about 'Boot Directly into DOS' (Terri: Thu, Dec 29, 2005, 7:30 am)

re: Question about 'Boot Directly into DOS' (Reines: Thu, Dec 5, 2002, 5:50 pm)

re: Question about 'Boot Directly into DOS' (Jerry Sisler: Tue, Dec 10, 2002, 7:09 pm)

re: Question about 'Boot Directly into DOS' (Aggervated: Fri, Dec 20, 2002, 1:24 pm)

re: Question about 'Boot Directly into DOS' (jd: Thu, Jul 24, 2003, 3:09 pm)

re: Question about 'Boot Directly into DOS' (Don: Sun, Oct 12, 2003, 8:06 pm)

re: Question about 'Boot Directly into DOS' (Mark Naylor: Fri, Dec 13, 2002, 7:03 am)

re: Question about 'Boot Directly into DOS' (Dave: Mon, Apr 7, 2003, 7:09 am)

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