Mail Archives: djgpp/2001/01/07/00:43:19
Alright, I installed it on my winME but it doesn't let me either go to
command prompt only (w/o loading GUI) or load a previous version of DOS
(well, there was no such a thing on my computer, so it's okay :).
It seems to me that exchanging systems files from C:\ with files from
"Emergency Boot Diskette" should do the trick, but this must be done very
easily and very safe because if we loose those files we need to find a good
boot diskette and repair those files back.
I tried to place system files from that emergency disk to local disk D:
(e.g. making D: a system disk) then marking D: as an active partition, but
this didn't work for some reason. Probably because D: is far away from the
beginning of the disk and standard old BIOS functions can not reach that
place. But I don't know for sure.
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"Doug Kaufman" <dkaufman AT rahul DOT net> wrote in message
news:938cdv$l6d$1 AT samba DOT rahul DOT net...
> "Alexei A. Frounze" <dummy_addressee AT hotmail DOT com> writes:
>
> >I have winME. What exactly this program is supposed to do? M$ doesn't say
> >anything about this on their pages (or at least on the page you've
> >provided).
>
> >"Doug Kaufman" <dkaufman AT rahul DOT net> wrote in message
> >news:937m3j$h2v$1 AT samba DOT rahul DOT net...
> >> I don't have WindowsME, so I haven't been able to test this, but the
> >> tweakui program available from Microsoft for WinME has a setting which
> >> allows you to be able to boot directly to the command line without
> >> calling the GUI. This works on Win98. Can someone with WinME check to
> >> see what it does there? The tweakui file itself is at:
> >> "http://www.microsoft.com/windowsme/guide/tweakui.exe"
> >> Description is at:
> >>
>
>"http://www.microsoft.com/ntworkstation/downloads/PowerToys/Networking/NTTw
e
> >akUI.asp"
>
> I guess tweakui isn't as well-known as I assumed. Tweakui is
> Microsoft's way of giving the user more control over the way the
> Windows GUI functions. The tweakui.exe file mentioned above is a
> self-extracting zip file. By right-clicking on the .inf file, after
> unzipping the archive, and clicking on "install", it adds an icon
> to the Control Panel. There is an extensive help file (get to it by
> clicking the box called "tips" from within tweakui) which describes
> all of the options. There is an option in the section entitled "boot",
> which enables Windows to stop at the command prompt, rather than
> starting the GUI. To get to the GUI from there, type "win". This is
> equivalent in Win98 to booting directly into DOS. My question was
> whether this would work in WinME. If you wish to examine the file
> before installing, just unzip the tweakui.exe archive and look at the
> contents.
> Doug
>
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> Doug Kaufman
> Internet: dkaufman AT rahul DOT net
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