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re: Question about 'Do I still need CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT?'
Tuesday, January 21, 2003 at 7:41 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Leslie Wilson
(2 messages posted)
Thank you for your help. Please forgive my ignorance, but I don't understand what
you mean. Do you mean boot of another type of software or win XP. I have and MS
money cd I could boot off of. However, it won't let me get to anything. Do you
think I should just try to call some kind of support?
On Tuesday, January 21, 2003 at 6:59 am, Bob B wrote:
>Normally, you don't need the config.sys and autoexec.bat - they are sometimes put
>in there for older, DOS-based apps (usually put on for some of the "junk" apps that
>come with a proprietary (Gateway, Dell, Compaq, etc.) computer. Normally, XP uses
>System.ini, Win.ini, Boot.ini to take care of necessities, and will use msdos.sys
>to take care of other items. You might consider booting from a floppy and checking
>for an autoexec.bat file and if it exists, open it and see if it refers to a config.sys
>or other items. If so, try to comment out the lines that seem to call for "helpers".
>
>Good Luck
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