Windows ME and earlier versions required MS-DOS to perform many background functions and operations. Many business applications developed for early versions of ...

I posted this in the Software Colloquium, and it got a whopping zero replies, so it must be the sort of high-end technical voodoo that didn't belong there (I wasn't aware that a batch file was that ...

Starting with DOS 6, there were multiple startup options for the CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT files. The user could bypass them, decide which lines to execute or set up multiple configurations for ...

Long story short - in an AUTOEXEC.BAT file can I refer to a CD drive or a RAMDRIVE by a non-varying label rather than the absolute drive letter (which varies with different systems)?<BR><BR>I have a ...

What to know before you dig into the startup areas Back in the days of DOS, if a program was automatically loading when a computer started up, there were only two places that the program could have ...