I just installed DOS 6.3 and Win 3.1 on a P133. When booting up, it goes to the Dos shell. How can I change the following autoexec.bat file so it boots directly in windows? Here's the autoexec.bat file now: C:\windows/smartdrv.exe @echo off prompt $p$g path=c:\windows;c:\dos set temp=c:\dos c:\dos\mouse.com c:dos\dosshell.exe I tried just typing "WIN" at the bottom of this and nothing happened. Also, an older computer i have has the line: lh c:\dos\smartdrv.exe. What does this "lh" do. Thanks a million

Hi, change your autoexec.bat file to this: @echo off prompt $p$g path=c:\windows;c:\dos set temp=c:\windows\temp c:\windows\smartdrv.exe win Bye

Thanks Eric, Do I need that lh line? and what does it do or mean? Thanks again

You might want to keep your mouse driver loaded lh c:\dos\mouse LH = loadhigh saves on that precious conventional memory by loading the DOS mouse driver into 'upper' memory. Try: mem/c /p to view memory usage Basically, the lines in autoexec.bat are mainly DOS commands executed automatically upon startup. Your old autoexec started dosshell as its last line. You need to remove that line and replace it with the 'win' line that erik shows, to execute (not boot) Windows. You can really fine tune a DOS machine if you set up your autoexec.bat and config.sys files properly, but you need to be familiar with the structure of those text files. The old MS-DOS6 help program is a good place to start, if you're interested.

ok lets make this simple for you :) remove the line c:dos\dosshell.exe add the line C:\windows\win.com save the autoexec.bat restart the system and bask in the warm clow of the winBloze 3x splashscreen

Some very good answers. Just remove the line c:dos\dosshell.exe Then add win as the last line. Good Luck Links

can you tell me what the config sys should look like also?