[pchelpers] Re: White screen in dos
- From: "GCox" <gcox@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pchelpers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 22:30:26 -0700
I right clicked the msdos prompt icon and tinkered in the program>advanced
area and accidentally came upon a way to get restarted in dos mode with the
regular black screen with white writing when I click on the msdos prompt
icon but this way I am unable to start a dos session in a window in
windows.Also, though I can work around the problem this way, this doesn't
actually fix the white screen problem. Start>shutdown>restart in dos mode
still produces the white screen..Using ansi.sys to try and change the color
of the white screen doesn't work.The only fix I can think of would be to
re-install windows but this is not enough of an annoyance to go through all
of that.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott McNay" <Wizard@xxxxxxxx>
To: "GCox" <pchelpers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2003 4:47 AM
Subject: [pchelpers] Re: White screen in dos
Hi GCox,
Tuesday, July 15, 2003, 4:41:10 AM, you wrote:
G> Hi Scott,
G> I found a batch file that is supposed use ansi.sys to make the dos
G> screen blue with white lettering. I followed all the instructions to the
G> letter. It works in a dos window from windows but not in dos itself.The
cls
G> command clears the screen alright-- a still white screen.
Need to restart in order for the DEVICE=ANSI.SYS line in C:\CONFIG.SYS
to take effect. Also, check for exactly where the file it; its
probably in C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND, so the line would look like
DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\ANSI.SYS
--Scott.
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