Separating MS-DOS 7.0 From Windows 95
Copyright ⌐ 1997 Volatility
Document Courtesy Of The Immortal
Descendants (NOTE: This essay is outdated, and is no longer updated or supported)
Why have a hidden DOS, that pops up in a clumsy looking
shell every time you run a DOS application, or perform DOS tasks?
I'll Show You How To Separate the hidden DOS 7.0 from Windows 95.
There is a file in your root directory called MSDOS.SYS. You
must get rid of the "Hidden", "System", and "Read-Only" attributes.
You can do this by right-clicking on the file, and choosing "Properties".
There you can uncheck these attributes.
Next, open this file with any text editor (Windows 95's Notepad
works just fine) and change the line BootGUI=1 to BootGUI=0, and add
the line LOGO=0. Here's what my MSDOS.SYS file looks like:
[Paths]
WinDir=C:\WINDOWS
WinBootDir=C:\WINDOWS
HostWinBootDrv=C
UninstallDir=C:\
[Options]
dblspace=0
drvspace=0
BootMulti=1
BootGUI=0
LOGO=0
After you do this, whenever you reboot, you'll boot to DOS.
If you want to run Windows, just type "WIN".
It is also possible to boot into a menu system. For example
you can make the options to choose wether you want to boot into
DOS, Windows 95, Windows 3.x, you can specify the system
settings you want to boot with. The possibilities are endless. To
find out how to do this, download my essay "Creating A Start-Up
Menu".
Don't Let Microsoft Know. {G}
-Volatility-