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Disabling F8 at boot ?
Name: Jimmy Nilsson Date: February 4, 2000 at 01:50:32 Pacific
Comment:
Is there a way to disable the F8 key during boot, so there is no way of halting the boot process ?
Name: Mick C Date: February 4, 2000 at 10:24:56 Pacific
Reply:
I take it you are useing Windows 95 or 98. Thier is a utility called BootEdit that will do what you want, plus a cartload of other changes. It is part of the Win98 Resource Kit.
Download it from my resource site http://www.powerload.fsnet.co.uk (or Click on link at top of this message)
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Response Number 2
Name: Nemesis Date: February 6, 2000 at 22:30:59 Pacific
Reply:
Check Dos 6.22 help. It's in there - also one to get around holding the Shift key
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Response Number 3
Name: sini Date: February 9, 2000 at 20:01:43 Pacific
Reply:
Edit your config.sys in c:\ add or modify -------------------- switches=/n --------------------- /n prevents you while booting to use F5 or F8.
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Response Number 4
Name: dosrules Date: February 28, 2000 at 18:20:49 Pacific
Reply:
there is way just search for "msdos.sys" on a search engine and it will tell you what to do
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