Windows ME and earlier versions required MS-DOS to perform many background functions and operations. Many business applications developed for early versions of ...

I posted this in the Software Colloquium, and it got a whopping zero replies, so it must be the sort of high-end technical voodoo that didn't belong there (I wasn't aware that a batch file was that ...

Autoexec.bat in Winnt4, Win2k, WinXP, etc is there for legacy purposes only. (I'm positive on Win2k, WinXP, and so on, but only somewhat sure of WinNT4)<BR><BR>All it does is take environment ...

What to know before you dig into the startup areas Back in the days of DOS, if a program was automatically loading when a computer started up, there were only two places that the program could have ...