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echo: win95
to: Mike Powell
from: Gary L. Murphy
date: 2003-07-06 20:24:40
subject: Windows-9x No-GUI Trick?

* On Sun  6 Jul 2003, our friend  wrote:

 mp> There used to be a way to get Win95 to boot to a DOS prompt without
 mp> user intervention... some change to one of the INI files.  Does anyone
 mp> remember what that was, and will it work with Windows 98SE?

Yes.

Look inside your MSDOS.SYS file in the root of your "C" drive for
the below line:

BootGUI=1


Simply change the "1" to a "0"  (That's zero) to boot
to a DOS prompt.



Later,
Gary


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