Re: TIB: HAL

To: <ti-basic@lists.ticalc.org>
Subject: Re: TIB: HAL
From: "Jeremy Mullins" <jkmullins@bigfoot.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Feb 1998 13:27:00 -0600
Reply-To: ti-basic@lists.ticalc.org


>> >>No, I fully agree, did you see my message earlier about how to make
Win95
>> >>boot to DOS?  After you make it boot to dos, to start windows, you type
>> win.
>> >>Sound familiar?
>> >
>> >Windows 95 alaways boots to dos before the "Welcome to 95" thing is
>> >displayed, dos is loaded.  Beleive me.  I have an opcode reader and the
>> >instructions are exactly the same for dos 7.0 and dos 7.0 with win95.
>>
>>
>> I know, all you have to do is edit the msdos.sys file (it's hidden,
system,
>> and read only) and change BootGUI=1 to BootGUI=0 and it won't load 95 at
>> all.
>>
>> J
>>
>
>My Win95 system freezes about 3 times in a row about every 6th time I boot
>it. I experimented with pressing F8, booting to command prompt only, and
>then typing Win, and it hasn't frozen once yet.
>
>I then tried changing the BootGUI line so I wouldn't have to press any
>keys, but it shows a few seconds of the startup picture before going to
>the command line, which shows it's still running some parts of Win95. It
>didn't fix my problem of Win95 freezing, either.


Go to www.microsoft.com and find the product download area for windows 95
and get the power toy called TweakUI.  Using it you can disable the "splash
screen" and it will look exactly like it does when you choose command prompt
only.

J