[ct-user] I need your help this time with CT and Win95

[Dick Dievendorff, K6KR]

Jim:

I suggest using Tweak UI from the Windows 95 Power Toys available (for free)
from the Microsoft web site
http://www.microsoft.com/windows95/info/powertoys.htm

Tweak UI installs as a control panel applet that offers a number of property
pages.  The "boot" tab has a "start GUI automatically" checkbox that you uncheck
to cause Win 95 to boot to a DOS prompt (which is very much quicker than going
to the Win 95 GUI).

The grungier manual way is:

Start a DOS prompt window.
Navigate to the root directory of your boot drive.
Enter "dir /ah" to find hidden files.  You want "msdos.sys".
Issue "attrib msdos.sys" and jot down the attributes.  On my system the
attributes were system, hidden, and read-only (shr).
Now enter "attrib -r -s -h msdos.sys" to remove these restrictive attributes and
make the file easy to edit.
Edit the file.  It's just text, and the 7th line or so should say "bootgui=1".
Change that 1 to a zero with a vanilla ASCII editor (I used edit that comes on
the system).
Save the updated file and reboot.
You can choose to make the file hidden, system, and read-only again if you wish
by entering "attrib +r +s +h msdos.sys".
You really, really don't want to lose this file, so it would probably be best to
protect it from accidental erasure.

It's been a while since I did anything but use TweakUI, but this is my
recollection of the process.

73 de Dick Dievendorff, K6KR





-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Reisert AD1C <jjreisert@alum.mit.edu>
To: ct-user@contesting.com <ct-user@contesting.com>; cq-contest@contesting.com
<cq-contest@contesting.com>; Trey Garlough <trey@kkn.net>
Date: Thursday, February 19, 1998 7:35 PM
Subject: [ct-user] I need your help this time with CT and Win95


>I went back through all the mail I saved and searched the web archives but
>can't find the answer to the following:
>
>I am running Win95 and I understand there's something I can add to one of
>the .INI files so that the computer will always boot to a DOS prompt from a
>power-up instead of starting windows.  I don't want to have to boot full
>Win95 and shutdown to a DOS prompt during the contest every time CT crashes
>(CT never crashes, does it?).
>
>What is this magic change?
>
>Thanks - Jim AD1C
>
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