From: "Alexei A. Frounze" <dummy_addressee AT hotmail DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Real DOS-Mode Patch for Windows Millennium
Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2001 17:34:44 -0500
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I have winME. What exactly this program is supposed to do? M$ doesn't say
anything about this on their pages (or at least on the page you've
provided).

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"Doug Kaufman" <dkaufman AT rahul DOT net> wrote in message
news:937m3j$h2v$1 AT samba DOT rahul DOT net...
> Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk> writes:
>
> >There is a "Real DOS-Mode Patch for Windows Millennium". I saw a link to
> >this on the FreeDOS mailing list today:
>
> >    http://www.geocities.com/mfd4life_2000/
>
> The big problem with this patch is that it is a binary patch which
> comes from a cracks site. It does not have the source code available
> and the original site for the patch (www.manifest-destiny.net) has
> never been reachable by me. This doesn't mean that it won't work as
> advertised, but its origins should make one think carefully before
> applying it.
>
> I don't have WindowsME, so I haven't been able to test this, but the
> tweakui program available from Microsoft for WinME has a setting which
> allows you to be able to boot directly to the command line without
> calling the GUI. This works on Win98. Can someone with WinME check to
> see what it does there? The tweakui file itself is at:
> "http://www.microsoft.com/windowsme/guide/tweakui.exe"
> Description is at:
>
"http://www.microsoft.com/ntworkstation/downloads/PowerToys/Networking/NTTwe
akUI.asp"
>                                  Doug
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