re: Question about 'Contents of the MSDOS.SYS File' Wednesday, February 5, 2003 at 11:11 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Rob Kennedy (1 messages posted) Have you ever found the answer to this question about how to "lock out" the f8 key during boot to prevent the safe boot option? On Tuesday, December 3, 2002 at 1:34 pm, Adam wrote: >Neither 2000 nor XP can be booted into DOS (as you're referring to it) as a bootup >option, at least not without using startup disks. In both cases they have an msdos.sys >file in the root of c:\, but they're just blank files. You can choose "safe mode >- command prompt" when starting up, but you'll still have to log in for security >reasons.... and all it is is a dos emulator. > > Written in response to: re: Question about 'Contents of the MSDOS.SYS File' (Adam the Wiseguy: Tuesday, December 3, 2002 at 1:34 pm) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] Question about 'Contents of the MSDOS.SYS File' (Zoltan Toth: Tue, Dec 3, 2002, 1:14 pm) re: Question about 'Contents of the MSDOS.SYS File' (Adam the Wiseguy: Tue, Dec 3, 2002, 1:34 pm) re: Question about 'Contents of the MSDOS.SYS File' (Zoltan Toth: Tue, Dec 3, 2002, 2:40 pm) re: Question about 'Contents of the MSDOS.SYS File' (jagged ben: Tue, Dec 3, 2002, 6:00 pm) re: Question about 'Contents of the MSDOS.SYS File' (Rob Kennedy: Wed, Feb 5, 2003, 11:11 am) re: Question about 'Contents of the MSDOS.SYS File' (napoleon: Tue, Mar 25, 2003, 12:06 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum