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Name: Dulon
Date: January 31, 2006 at 08:39:55 Pacific
OS: win98
CPU/Ram: P3/128MB
Comment:

Hi,
I have win98 and have a dos based dedicated program. Actually the pc is dedicated and i want the pc to boot and run the program automatically after booting. Till now, the pc is boot to win98 and i have to manually go to the dos prompt and run the program.

please help ?



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Response Number 1
Name: Sandor (by prdsknoll)
Date: January 31, 2006 at 09:28:59 Pacific
Reply:

There's an excellent free program called MacroMaker (create and run macros) at.....

http://www.snapfiles.com/reviews/MacroMaker/macromaker.html

This will do it and a lot more.

Good luck.

I - Sandor J

Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment is the treasurer of the wise man.
- William Penn (1614 - 1718)


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Response Number 2
Name: Dulon
Date: January 31, 2006 at 09:35:11 Pacific
Reply:

Thanks a lot for your information. I will look for MacroMaker. :-)


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Response Number 3
Name: budm
Date: January 31, 2006 at 17:22:33 Pacific
Reply:

go to windows explorer in the root of C drive and right click on the file name 'msdos.sys' and uncheck the read only box. open that file with notepad and then change the bootgui from 1 to 0, save and close the file. edit the autoexec.bat and add line at the bottom for the path and the program name that you want to startup automatically, ie c:\ xxxx.exe. When you want to get back to windows, just type in 'win' at the c prompt.


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Response Number 4
Name: budm
Date: January 31, 2006 at 17:24:48 Pacific
Reply:

correction, right click the file and then choose property then you will see the pop up windows to uncheck the read only box.


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Response Number 5
Name: Derek
Date: January 31, 2006 at 17:37:30 Pacific
Reply:

You could put program in:
Start/Programs/Startup

or in

c:\windows\all users\start menu\programs\startup

DerekW


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Response Number 6
Name: jubalsams
Date: January 31, 2006 at 23:03:22 Pacific
Reply:

Open Explorer and find the program. Right click it and choose Send To "Desktop (create shortcut)".

Now as Derek says, put the shortcut in your StartUp folder.

Best


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Response Number 7
Name: Mechanix2Go
Date: January 31, 2006 at 23:05:57 Pacific
Reply:

budm got it right.


If at first you don't succeed, you're about average.

M2


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Response Number 8
Name: Dulon
Date: February 1, 2006 at 07:51:38 Pacific
Reply:

I think the suggestion by Budm is more suitable for my problem because i want the program to run automatically without any mouse or keyboard activity after booting.

Thanks a lot to all of you for your valuable suggestions.

Regards,
Dulon


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Response Number 9
Name: Derek
Date: February 1, 2006 at 14:13:59 Pacific
Reply:

I quite accept your preference but just to clarify, putting the program in startup doesn't require any keyboard activity either. It just runs when you boot.

DerekW


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Response Number 10
Name: name
Date: February 1, 2006 at 15:30:56 Pacific
Reply:

If you have a DOS program that you want to run in DOS without starting windows, the original post by budm is the way to go:


"""go to windows explorer in the root of C drive and right click on the file name 'msdos.sys' and uncheck the read only box. open that file with notepad and then change the bootgui from 1 to 0, save and close the file. edit the autoexec.bat and add line at the bottom for the path and the program name that you want to startup automatically, ie c:\ xxxx.exe."


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Response Number 11
Name: Derek
Date: February 1, 2006 at 15:43:10 Pacific
Reply:

Yeah, OK, on re-read it seems this is a "true DOS program". In which case my suggestion about putting
it in startup (Windows) is clearly NOT an option.

DerekW


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