[arachne] Re: ?win98 boot into dos by default?

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Eric,

I read it already--but I don't understand it. What does disable
APM/ACPI mean? What is that going to do? What effect will it have
on my regular Windows programs? I will confess to using Firefox
and Word 97 with my Win 98 install.

How should Windows be shut down to get back to DOS?

Sam Ewalt


Eric S. Emerson said:
> Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club!
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> Hi Sam E,
>                       Read Udo's post below. He describes
> how to close W$n back to DOS.
>
> Eric
>
> --------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: "Udo Kuhnt" <048321887-0001@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: arachne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 11:22:29 +0000
> Subject: [arachne] Re: ?win98 boot into dos by default?
>
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> Setting BootGUI=0 is the classic and 100% working method of doing this.
> AFAIK, it works for all versions from early Win95A to Win98SE.
>
> If you rename win.com to w.com and create a batch file win.bat that just
> contains
>
> W.COM
> MODE CO80,25
>
> you can even continue to work in DOS after shutting down Windows
> (provided that you disable APM/ACPI support in the BIOS setup, otherwise
> it would power off the PC instead).
>
> Regards,
>
> Udo
>
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