I have a question about Restart Windows without Restarting your Computer:

In XP, the following are not available when choosing 'properties' from the context menu of a .bat file "Right-click on the shortcut, select Properties, click the Program tab, and make sure the Close on Exit option is turned on. Then, click Advanced, and make sure MS-DOS mode is selected, and Warn before entering MS-DOS mode is turned off. " The Program tab, MS-Dos mode, and Warn before do not show in XP. How can one create such a shortcut under XP? thanks Larry

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That article applies to 9x and has no relevance to XP 2000 or NT (as it clearly stats in the top left corner)
Under 9x You can shutdown windows and operate in MS-DOS then restart windows
But XP 2000 and NT don’t sit on top of an MS-DOS kernel so there is no OS under it to exit to
So what are you trying to do? The instructions in that article aren't going to help but we might be able to
Unless you're trying to reboot into MS-DOS which can't be done in XP
Regards, Adam Bradley


On Tuesday, August 19, 2003 at 8:49 pm, Larry wrote:
>I have a question about Restart
>Windows without Restarting your Computer:

>In XP, the following are not available when choosing 'properties' from the context
>menu of a .bat file
>"Right-click on the shortcut, select Properties, click the Program tab, and make
>sure the Close on Exit option is turned on.
>Then, click Advanced, and make sure MS-DOS mode is selected, and Warn before entering
>MS-DOS mode is turned off. "
>The Program tab, MS-Dos mode, and Warn before do not show in XP.
>How can one create such a shortcut under XP?
>
>thanks
>
>Larry
>
>

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Hi, I'm trying to install Win98 SE on a 2-partition hard-drive.I cuurently have Xp ON one-side but 'm having problems installing 98 on the other-side.How does one get to pure MS-DOS from WinXP (ie: logoff XP & run Pure DOS ,not Command-prompt via XP).Thanks Aeshan

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You can't do that with XP. XP has a nice partitioning tool, but no way to set an active boot partition. I suggest you buy System Commander or Partition Commander(or download it, which is easy, though that is considered illegal). With it, you can hide each OS from the other if needed, and can set which partition to boot from.


On Sunday, August 8, 2004 at 1:47 am, Aeshan wrote:
>
>Hi,
> I'm trying to install Win98 SE on a 2-partition hard-drive.I cuurently have Xp
>ON one-side but 'm having problems installing 98 on the other-side.How does one get
>to pure MS-DOS from WinXP (ie: logoff XP & run Pure DOS ,not Command-prompt via XP).Thanks
>Aeshan

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it can be done as long as win 98 resides on the very first part of the disk i believe before cylinder 1024 on the hard disk you will also need a boot manager boot magic comes with one and it works well


On Sunday, August 15, 2004 at 10:17 am, Gordon Pettey wrote:
>You can't do that with XP. XP has a nice partitioning tool, but no way to set an
>active boot partition. I suggest you buy System Commander or Partition Commander(or
>download it, which is easy, though that is considered illegal). With it, you can
>hide each OS from the other if needed, and can set which partition to boot from.
>
>
>

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