re: Question about 'Do I still need CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT?'
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 at 9:07 am
Posted by borg
(2664 messages posted)
WinXP clean install creates the two files in C:\, but they are empty. Maybe that's
the idea. XP parses the autoexec.bat file, but only for some environment variables
- it will not execute any programs. Config.sys will be totally ignored. If you don't
have these two files in c:\, create them. If the files are there but the dos installer
doesn't like a zero-length autoexec.bat just add some comments and useless things
there, like:
rem this is a bogus autoexec.bat
echo blah blah blah
rem ...
On Tuesday, March 22, 2005 at 8:49 am, punkerjim wrote:
>I have a question about Do
>I still need CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT?:
>
>
>I have some really old software that I'm trying to install on a windows XP machine
>and each time I run the setup.exe file and go through the install process it errors
>out that it couldn't open the autoexec.bat file.
>
>From what i've read here, XP does not need the autoexec.bat file. I have attempted
>to set up "autoexec.bat" as a windows user environmental variable but that did nothing.
>
>Anyone know of a work around for this?
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