re: System.ini entry gone on reboot
Tuesday, October 13, 2009 at 1:58 pm
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Posted by Ed
(659 messages posted)
Your actions are unwise! Windows ME is trying to protect you from a Blue Screen Of
Death, by refusing to load (incompatible) Windows 3.1 drivers. You NEED the Win98
drivers, as a Win3.1 file is NOT a real mode (i.e. a DOS) driver: it is an (incompatible)
protected mode driver.
Ed
On Tuesday, September 29, 2009 at 2:16 pm, madman420 wrote:
>Well, I really looked around for an answer and I think my situation is pretty rare.
> I decided to just make a workaround for the system.ini lines that Windows ME is
>automatically removing every reboot.
>
>I added a line to c:\autoexec.bat that over-writes the c:\windows\system.ini file
>with a replacement system.ini file that has the entries that keep getting removed:
>
>copy d:\dos\system.ini c:\windows\system.ini
>
>This 'fixes' the change WinME makes on every reboot by simply overwriting those
changes
>with mine the next time the PC starts. (I'm using the patched start-up files to
>allow for autoexec.bat/config.sys)
>
>It seems that the "Unable to synchronize the environment variables..." error with
>'msconfig' is caused by trailing spaces in autoexec.bat and menu entries in config.sys.
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