Mail Archives: djgpp/1999/08/18/20:33:35
Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> On Sun, 15 Aug 1999, Nate Eldredge wrote:
>
> > I've heard about this before but never really paid attention (I didn't
> > have 98 then but I do now). Do you feel like explaining again how the
> > AUTOEXEC weirdness works?
> If you are asking *why* is it tricky to find the correct AUTOEXEC.BAT,
> then I don't know (didn't have yet the dubious pleasure of installing
> Windows 98). Anybody?
It depends on how you install it. On my installation, there is only 1
autoexec.bat file, and it is always used. The problems occur when you use
a 'restart in dos mode' that needs to load some weird things into memory
(special drivers/TSR's/RAM-drives). Windows needs to do a real-reboot to
load these drivers correctly (I don't know why...). So they make a new
autoexec file with that new settings in it (along with a config.sys) and
they replace the real ones just before the reboot, then they put the
originals back if you type "win" from the DOS session, and then it restarts
the machine.
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