Mainly just curious. I myself haven't really come across anything all that odd unfortunately. Long maybe, like the Win98 boot floppies and such, but nothing really crazy or anything. I do know there ...

Hey folks,<P>My system was ailing and I discovered the config.sys and autoexec.bat were to blame. I disabled these in startup using "msconfig" at run. Now it runs pretty well.<BR>2 questions. I've ...

What to know before you dig into the startup areas Back in the days of DOS, if a program was automatically loading when a computer started up, there were only two places that the program could have ...

(CONFIGure SYStem) A text file that contained commands to load drivers and establish settings in a DOS PC. Along with AUTOEXEC.BAT, it resided in the root folder. CONFIG.SYS was included in Windows ...

Starting with DOS 6, there were multiple startup options for the CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT files. The user could bypass them, decide which lines to execute or set up multiple configurations for ...

While Windows has moved away from using Microsoft Disk Operating System as a base, versions of DOS still persist. Some programs refuse to run in modern versions of Windows and require a DOS emulator.