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Conference noted::windows95

Title:	Microsoft Windows 95 ("Chicago")
Notice:	Please read topics 1 to 22 before writing anything
Moderator:	EEMELI::BACKSTROM

Created:	Mon Nov 14 1994
Last Modified:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	2958
Total number of notes:	19968

2879.0. "W95 default DOS setup" by BRITE::FYFE (Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without.) Wed Mar 26 1997 18:30

I want to set up some games to run under DOS. There exists in the
property box a section that allows you to select the standard currently
active DOS setup or you can brew your own DOS CONFIG and AUTOEXEC files.

If you choose to use the currently active settings the system goes
directly into DOS without rebooting. 

If you choose to brew your own, activating that image forces a reboot
which loads the images personal CONFIG and AUTOEXEC.

Question:

How do you modify the standard configuration?

I know it can be done since installing Sound Blaster Drivers modifies the
configuration to include support for them.

What I want to do is include the mouse driver in the standard DOS setup so
that the system will start up DOS games without rebooting. 

Why? Because rebooting is a rather lengthy operation on my multiple boot
system and I'd prefer not to reboot twice everytime I run a DOS game.

Thanks,

Doug.

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
2879.1	Old fashioned way...	CHEFS::WILLIAMSA	I wanna be Luke	`Thu Mar 27 1997 08:39`	8
	Re adding mouse. I've done this... Quite safe and easy. Just add the command (c:\mouse\mouse in my case) to your Autoexec.bat. Win95 works quite nicely with or without this line, and all games you run now have the mouse driver loaded. Alen.
2879.2		BRITE::FYFE	Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without.	`Fri Mar 28 1997 12:01`	12
	Hmmm .... I tried .-1 without success. Moreover, while I can view the standard dos configuration in the property box but I can find no files that contain the commands to set the configuration up. Boy is this annoying ..... Doug.
2879.3	Try editing DOSSTART.BAT	POBOXA::KEEFER	Craig PK03-1/R11, DTN:223-4902	`Fri Mar 28 1997 16:08`	7
	re: >>>Hmmm .... I tried .-1 without success. Try adding that "mouse" command to DOSSTART.BAT (or DOSTART.BAT, I can't remember) in your c:\windows directory. This BAT file gets executed when you open a DOS window from Win95. -Craig
2879.4	Edit from Properties Box	SSDEVO::LAURENCE		`Fri Mar 28 1997 17:53`	7
	RE: -.2 The configuration files can be edited right from the properties box window, just click the the window where the files is displayed and edit away. Dennis
2879.5		BRITE::FYFE	Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without.	`Wed Apr 02 1997 14:29`	13
	> The configuration files can be edited right from the properties box > window, just click the the window where the files is displayed and > edit away. Doing this creates a non-current MS-DOS configuration and results in the system rebooting to run a dos program. The reboot is what I'm trying to avoid. Editing and saving the current configuration is what I want to accomplish, but I can't find the location where the current config is kept. Doug.
2879.6		BRITE::FYFE	Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without.	`Wed Apr 02 1997 14:33`	20
	re: POBOXA::KEEFER "Craig PK03-1/R11, DTN:223-4902" >Try adding that "mouse" command to DOSSTART.BAT (or DOSTART.BAT, I can't >remember) in your c:\windows directory. This BAT file gets executed when you >open a DOS window from Win95. A new piece of info; thanks! I tried this at work. The mouse driver complains: Another mouse driver is present in memory, this mouse driver cannot be loaded. Please remove the existing mouse driver then load this mouse driver. I guess this means that the WINDOWS mouse driver is loaded and interfers with the dos mouse driver. I might be stuck with a lousy solution :-/ Doug.