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["Glenn Gilbreath Jr." <wizard57m@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Udo,

I can't commetn on Bastiaan, but for myself with Win95 if I go
ahead and start Win95, anything less than a reboot will result in
WIN.COM still being in memory.  Windows 3.1 did not do this, as
you have noted.  But Windows 95 and later have a tendency to treat
the PC as if it is the only operating system installed.  One of
these days I'll run a test and see...as right now I'm booted into
DOS 7 (DOS from Win95A), type WIN at the command line, load Win95,
then exit back and see what is in memory.  At the moment, I'm too
busy celebrating New Years!
C U L8R!
Wiz  <{;-)
In message Sun, 31 Dec 2006 21:15:37 +0000,
  "Udo Kuhnt" <048321887-0001@xxxxxxxxxxx>  writes:

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>>> I just checked it again on my test machine; I have the same amount of
>>>   free conventional mem before and after running Windows, so it works
>>>    here with Win98SE. Do you load any TSR programs or device drivers
>>> after  starting Windows that might keep it from exiting properly?
>>>
>
>
>> Udo,
>>   The free memory is same because...
>>   Windows is still running, you are not
>>   Exiting/Crashing to DOS without having
>>   Win.com, regardless of name, in memory.
>>    To not have win.com loaded you must do cold reboot and boot to
>> command line
>
> Hi Wiz,
>
> with "before running Windows", I mean exactly that - before I have
> started win.com and thus Windows. I do not need any reboot since I have
> Win98 configured to not load win.com automatically, so unless I run
> win.com, only MS-DOS 7.1 is active. And after I shutdown Windows, it
> simply terminates and I am back in MS-DOS again. That is what I meant
> when I said that "crashing" Windows is not necessary to go back to DOS.
>
> I do not know why this does not work for Bastiaan; AFAIK this has always
> worked with any version of DOS and Windows, up to and including Win98SE.
>
> Regards,
>
> Udo
>
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