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Aug 02, 2019 Type cd to get to the C: prompt. Type attrib msdos.sys -r -a -s -h and press Enter. Type edit msdos.sys and press Enter. Locate the line BOOTGUI=1 and change the line to BOOTGUI=0 and save the file. Reboot your computer. Windows 3.11 and earlier were merely GUI shells for DOS. Windows 95, 98, 98se, and Windows ME all had DOS at their core. Windows NT 4.0 never booted from DOS, nor did its predecessors.
RUNNING DOS GAMES AND SIMULATIONS WITH WINDOWS 95-ANOTHER APPROACH By: Mark StotzerOriginally published in Volume 1 Issue 3 of 'Computer Pilot' magazine. Special thanks to Robert Ferraro of CP for permission to post. Pacific Grove, California, USA [email protected] March 1996-Updated April 1997. From observing numerous recent FS5 and DOS user postings on the USENET newsgroups rec.aviation.simulators and comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.flight-sim, I would like to offer an alternate way of running FS5 and other DOS game programs with Windows 95. My preferred method is to boot Windows 95 to a DOS prompt. I have found that if I run DOS applications like ATP and FS5 and the rest of my DOS apps from this bootup 'DOS 7.0' (That is what is under Windows 95) prompt I have better performance and less problems. I also still frequently use many DOS applications and utilities and do not want to automatically enter the Windows 95 Graphical User Interface (GUI) upon every bootup. I realize that by pressing the F8 key when you reboot and see 'Starting Windows 95....' will cause the boot menu to pop up and you can select your choice. My intent is to show you how to automate that process. I run ATP with the 3DAGS enhancement, FS4, FS5.1 and Aces of the Pacific, Over Europe and most other DOS apps with this setup. My hardware is a Pentium 133 with 16MB of RAM, a PAS16 sound card and an NEC 8X IDE CDROM. In order to make your system boot up as I described above, you have to modify your Win95 MSDOS.SYS file and also your AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS files. Let's then go through the procedures step by step:
attrib -r -h -s msdos.sys<Enter>
STEP3: Make a backup copy of your MSDOS.SYS file by typing: copy msdos.sys msdos.old <Enter> STEP4: Edit MSDOS.SYS. Now type: edit msdos.sys<Enter> You will see a section labeled [Options]. Modify this section and add the lines you do not have as follows (The order does not matter): [Options] BootGUI=0 (This line alone will cause Win95 to boot to DOS prompt only) (Or try these next three or four lines) BootMenu=1 (This will cause boot menu to always appear on bootup) BootMenuDelay= 10 (Default is 30 seconds) BootMenuDefault= Whatever number choice on boot menu you want BootMulti= 1 (Add this line if you installed Win 95 over an older DOS (-it will allow you to boot up with the older DOS. It adds an additional boot menu choice) Logo=0 or 1 (Turns the splash graphic off or on) Network= 0 or 1 (Again, it depends on your system)
attrib +r +s +h msdos.sys<Enter>
So, now we are either booting up to a DOS 7.0 prompt automatically or by selecting it off the Boot Menu. Let's continue! Many of you may find that your Windows 95 startup files AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS are rather barren compared to your earlier DOS versions. This is because Windows 95 installs itself assuming you want to always boot directly into the Graphical User Interface (GUI) and run all your programs from there. Well, that's not what we're after here!Note1: Windows 95 will load HIMEM.SYS, SETVER.EXE and IFSHLP.SYS into upper memory upon bootup even if the DEVICE or DEVICEHIGH= lines are NOT in your CONFIG.SYS file! We will load them the old fashioned way below just in case the memory manager needs to 'see' the lines. Note2: On some OEM systems (Dell, Gateway) editing MSDOS.SYS does not work to force your system to boot to a DOS prompt. In this case, you can force your system to boot to only a DOS prompt by going to your WINDOWS directory and renaming WIN.COM to WIN95.COM. Your system then can't run WIN by itself. To run the Win95 GUI you merely type 'WIN95' at the C:> prompt.
copy autoexec.bat *.old<Enter> and STEP7: Edit your Win95 CONFIG.SYS by typing: edit config.sys<Enter> CONFIG.SYS should contain AT LEAST these lines preferably in this order:copy config.sys *.old<Enter> DEVICE=C:WINDOWSHIMEM.SYS (This gives you Extended memory-XMS) DEVICE=C:WINDOWSEMM386.EXE RAM HIGHSCANI=B700-B7FF D=64 H=255 (Note: if you run into problems with above try removing the 'HIGHSCAN then I=B700-B7FF) DOS=HIGH,UMB FILES=60 BUFFERS=10 LASTDRIVE= (Whatever you need/optional) SHELL=C:WINDOWSCOMMAND.COM C:WINDOWS /P DEVICEHIGH=C:CDROMCDDRV.SYS /D:xxxxxxx (Must agree with /D: in MSCDEX below! It IS NOT the CDROM drive letter but a device name like 'MSCD001') DEVICEHIGH= (Your real mode sound card driver if needed) DEVICEHIGH=C:WINDOWSSETVER.EXE DEVICEHIGH=C:WINDOWSIFSHLP.SYS DEVICEHIGH=C:WINDOWSCOMMANDANSI.SYS (If you need it) Save it with Alt-F, Exit, Yes. ![]() @ECHO OFF Windows Gui HistoryPROMPT $P$GSET BLASTER= (If you have ATP you need this in all caps) SET PATH=C:WINDOWS;C:WINDOWSCOMMAND; etc. SET (any other needed SET commands) LH C:WINDOWSCOMMANDMSCDEX.EXE /D:xxxxx /E The /D: must agree with CDROM driver in config.sys-the /D: here IS NOT the CDROM drive letter it is a device name like 'MSCD001.' The /E parameter should ONLY be used in conjunction with using the 'RAM' parameter of EMM386.EXE in config.sys above. LH (Sound card program if needed) Boot Windows 95 In GuitarLH C:WINDOWSSMARTDRV.EXE /X LH C:MOUSEMOUSE.COM or EXE Save it with Alt-F, Exit, Yes.
Final Notes:
This is a list of software that provides an alternative graphical user interface for Microsoft Windowsoperating systems. The technical term for this interface is a shell. Windows' standard user interface is the Windows shell; Windows 3.0 and Windows 3.1x have a different shell, called Program Manager. The programs in this list do not restyle the Windows shell, but replace it; therefore, they look and function differently, and have different configuration options.
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