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re: Question about 'Do I still need CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT?'
Saturday, August 18, 2001 at 11:22 pm
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Posted by John S Mathwin (2 messages posted)

Thanks Curt, even zero byte files take up one sector, and I think that if you try to edit Config.sys the same thing happens as with autoexec.bat. I'll certainly give your tip a bash though.

On Friday, August 17, 2001 at 8:24 am, Curt R wrote:
>

I don't believe you can get rid of the config.sys. If it's a 0 byte file it isn't
>taking up any room anyhow so what's the problem? As for autoexec.bat....try going
>to your run menu, type "msconfig" (no quotes) and click on the autoexec.bat tab and
>do your editing there and see if that doesn't work for you.

>
>

>On Thursday, August 16, 2001 at 10:09 pm, John S Mathwin wrote:
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>>I have a question about Do
>
>>I still need CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT?:

>
>>
>
>>In Windows Me I cannot get rid of config.sys, I delete it and next time I boot up
>
>>it is back again as a 0 byte file, also if I try to edit autoexec.bat that also
>gets
>
>>thrown out and the old Microsoft version put back in its place when I reboot and
>
>>my edited version changed to autoexec.bak. So how can I permanantly
>
>>a) remove/delete config.sys
>
>>b) edit autoexec.bat

Written in response to:
re: Question about 'Do I still need CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT?' (Curt R: Friday, August 17, 2001 at 8:24 am)

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re: Question about 'Do I still need CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT?' (Curt R: Sunday, August 19, 2001 at 2:55 pm)

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Question about 'Do I still need CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT?' (John S Mathwin: Thu, Aug 16, 2001, 10:09 pm)

re: Question about 'Do I still need CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT?' (Y2kaos: Thu, Mar 21, 2002, 4:37 am)

re: Question about 'Do I still need CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT?' (Rodrigo: Thu, Jul 25, 2002, 11:47 pm)

re: Answer to: Question about 'Do I still need CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT?' (Ra: Fri, Nov 7, 2003, 9:40 am)

re: Question about 'Do I still need CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT?' (Curt R: Fri, Aug 17, 2001, 8:24 am)

re: Question about 'Do I still need CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT?' (Brandon H: Mon, Nov 12, 2001, 7:53 am)

re: Question about 'Do I still need CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT?' (fitz: Wed, Dec 26, 2001, 9:27 pm)

re: Question about 'Do I still need CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT?' (John S Mathwin: Sat, Aug 18, 2001, 11:22 pm)

re: Question about 'Do I still need CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT?' (Curt R: Sun, Aug 19, 2001, 2:55 pm)

re: Question about 'Do I still need CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT?' (Charles R. Meyer: Wed, Oct 24, 2001, 1:31 pm)

re: Question about 'Do I still need CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT?' (Bill H: Wed, Dec 26, 2001, 5:18 am)

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