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| Title: | Microsoft Windows 95 ("Chicago") |
| Notice: | Please read topics 1 to 22 before writing anything |
| Moderator: | EEMELI::BACKSTROM |
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| Created: | Sun Nov 13 1994 |
| Last Modified: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 2958 |
| Total number of notes: | 19968 |
2758.0. "W95 always in MSdos" by CHEFS::SAUNDERS_A (Ant **) Fri Jan 24 1997 07:47
Bit of a problem I hope you can help with...
I have an MSDOS .BAT file which is triggered from within W95. It
normally works fine, restarting W95 in msdos, running .BAT file, then
going back to normal windows.
However, since a few days ago, when you startup the machine, it
displays initial w95 animated screen, then goes straight into msdos
app. After exiting , instead of going into windows it reboots and
starts all over again!
I got to command prompt and types out autoexec.dos (.bat?) and says
something like (from memory)
.
.
.
CD C:\DEV
DEVAPP.BAT
CD C:\
C:\WINDOWS\WIN.COM /W
If you single step through and ignore lines 1-3 above , then upon
invoking WIN.COM line, it reboots and starts again.
Is there a parameter/file which is telling windows to restart in MSDOS
mode, and maybe has been left behind/corrupted ????
The MSDOS.SYS file parameters look ok.
I'm relatively new to w95, so this is probably a real obvious one!
Many thanks
Antony.
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| 2758.1 | | TDCISA::BOREL | If I don't meet you in this world ... | Mon Jan 27 1997 11:02 | 7 |
| Did you change anything in your properties for MSDOS.BAT ?
If you select properties->advanced parameters and then select MS-DOS
mode, then, for this app, windows will be stopped when running the app
and have to be restarted when the app ends.
Hope this helps, if I understood your problem.
Olivier
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| 2758.2 | Try The F8 at Boot | BOOKS::RAPHAELSON | | Mon Jan 27 1997 15:49 | 8 |
| A similar thing happened to me after running s DOS app once. I
rebooted and hit f8 just berfore the win95 start, to get the boot up
mode selection menu. From their I chose normal. The system booted to
win 95 as it should, and all subsequent reboots worked fine as well.
Apparently some flag must have gotten set to boot to DOS, and the f8
procedure removed or reset that flag somehow. Maybe it will work for
you as well............Jon............
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| 2758.3 | solved it | CHEFS::SAUNDERS_A | Ant ** | Tue Jan 28 1997 11:24 | 16 |
| RE .1 - are you referring to MSDOS.BAT or the actual .BAT that runs my
DOS application ?. It is setup to restart in DOS mode to run the
application, trouble is it never returns to Windows!
RE .2 - I tried this solution, same problem, just rebooted.
Solved it in the end by scrapping pre95 files autoexec.bat &
config.sys. Works fine now. Although I would like to know what it is
that makes W95 'know' to startup in MSDOS mode.
Thanks for you input.
A
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