At 05:36 PM 99-04-22 , you wrote:
>So one day this week his nerdy, know-it-all- brother went to his house,
>started playing with AOL and some games and decided to download some
>games to play alone (not on the net).  No one knows what he did, but
>after he left, one of the girls went to turn on the computer and the
>system boots into a DOS game.  If you quit the game, Win98 reboots and
>it went right back into the DOS game again.
>
>I searched both Autoexec.bat and Config.sys for any pause command and I
>could not find one.  I'm a DOS/Win3.11 person.  I know these two files
>are not REALLY used by Win9x, but I just don't want to go and delete
>them.
>
>I guess the big Question is what can I do about this?  (Besides tell the
>guy to shoot his brother!)
>
>Any and All hints are truly appreciated.
>--
>Jean Bourvic :>))

Jean,
Look for the line in CONFIG.SYS:
DOS=SINGLE

Remove it

Also, in AUTOEXEC.BAT,
remove the lines that begin with something like
REM Placed here by Windows, do not remove or change

and ending with (I think, it has been a while since I have seen this problem.)
WIN /X

These are the lines placed in CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT to allow a game
to work in MS-DOS mode. By removing them, you _should_ be able to boot back
into
Win9x. Also, if they exist, you could rename CONFIG.WOS and AUTOEXEC.WOS to
be the correct files, CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT, respectively.

The few times I have seen this happen, the machine was in MS-DOS mode, and a
client
just quit a game to return to windows, except, instead of letting Win9x boot
into the shell,
the client(stupidly?) shut the machine down, apparently while Win9x was
rewriting the
CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT files. I'd say shoot the brother just for good
measure! :>

Jamie Furtner

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