From: Doug Kaufman Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Real DOS-Mode Patch for Windows Millennium Date: 6 Jan 2001 17:53:55 GMT Organization: a2i network Lines: 26 Message-ID: <937m3j$h2v$1@samba.rahul.net> References: <3A54ED09 DOT 63873BBE AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: yellow.rahul.net NNTP-Posting-User: dkaufman X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.6 (NOV) To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Richard Dawe 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/NTTweakUI.asp" Doug -- Doug Kaufman Internet: dkaufman AT rahul DOT net