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Win95 as Primary OS
Name: Danny Date: March 8, 2000 at 08:17:52 Pacific
Comment:
Can anyone tell me how to make Win95 my primary OS. I've installed Win95 but at startup my machine still goes to a dos menu. Any suggestions are appreciated.
Name: steve Date: March 8, 2000 at 08:28:08 Pacific
Reply:
Danny...we need more info... What were you running on this computer before you installed W95???
How did yo install it???
What machine did you put it on, 486, pentII , how much memory etc..etc...
Do you get any kind of a "windows screen" at all when you start???
Did you install W95 over something else...;or did you fdisk and reformat then install it to an empty hd???
Talk to us Steve
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Response Number 2
Name: Danny Date: March 8, 2000 at 08:36:07 Pacific
Reply:
The machine had Dos 6.X that would put up a windows type menu at startup. At that point you could select to run "Windows" 3.1 from the menu. I detree'd windows and loaded Win 95 using a boot disk with CD-Rom support to load a full version of Win95 not an upgrade. The same startup menu comes up now and I can select "Windows" from the menu and Win95 starts up just fine. I would rather the machine just startup in Win95 mode. By the way, it's a pentium with 16 MB RAM.
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Response Number 3
Name: tigger Date: March 8, 2000 at 08:53:22 Pacific
Reply:
Danny... You are better off doing a fdisk the a full format to the drive then install the full version of 95
This menu is all contained in the config.sys and autoexec.bat files. Edit these files and remove all headings such as "COMMON". This will deactivate the menu. Al
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Response Number 5
Name: Danny Date: March 8, 2000 at 09:23:31 Pacific
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