From: Doug Kaufman <dkaufman AT rahul DOT net>
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Subject: Re: Real DOS-Mode Patch for Windows Millennium
Date: 7 Jan 2001 00:14:54 GMT
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"Alexei A. Frounze" <dummy_addressee AT hotmail DOT com> writes:

>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).

>"Doug Kaufman" <dkaufman AT rahul DOT net> wrote in message
>news:937m3j$h2v$1 AT samba DOT rahul DOT net...
>> 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"

I guess tweakui isn't as well-known as I assumed. Tweakui is
Microsoft's way of giving the user more control over the way the
Windows GUI functions. The tweakui.exe file mentioned above is a
self-extracting zip file. By right-clicking on the .inf file, after
unzipping the archive, and clicking on "install", it adds an icon
to the Control Panel. There is an extensive help file (get to it by
clicking the box called "tips" from within tweakui) which describes
all of the options. There is an option in the section entitled "boot",
which enables Windows to stop at the command prompt, rather than
starting the GUI. To get to the GUI from there, type "win". This is
equivalent in Win98 to booting directly into DOS. My question was
whether this would work in WinME. If you wish to examine the file
before installing, just unzip the tweakui.exe archive and look at the
contents.
                            Doug

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