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Valerie Sutton Date: Wed Sep 20, 2000 7:32 pm Subject: Thanks for everyone's advice ;-))) | |
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On 9/20/00, Bill Reese wrote: >VALERIE! DO NOT TOUCH THE AUTOEXEC.BAT FILE!!!! > >Excuse me for the caps, but that's extremely important. The autoexec.bat >file is ran during bootup and it has settings needed for your machine to >work right. So don't touch until you know what you are doing. ;-) :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: SignWriting List September 20, 2000 Many thanks, Bill! You are correct ;-) The ONE thing I know from working with computers since 1984 is... "Never touch an autoexec.bat file without the help of a DOS expert"! So I didn't, and you are right, I would have totally confused my computers. In fact, some of the autoexec.bat editors didn't have ANYTHING in them - they were totally blank...so I wrote to Jerry and he explained that in the old days, Windows relied on MS-DOS to function...but times are changing... Which means that future Windows users, will know as little about MS-DOS as Macintosh users...yeah! Thanks so much for all your advice...I will read your other messages later - Have a wonderful day everyone! PS. Can someone go up on the AltaVista Translation Web Page and translate Stefan's German message to English? That would be great fun - you can do this on this web page: AltaVista Translation Service on the Web (free) https://babelfish.altavista.digital.com/translate.dyn And thanks for the message in German, Stefan! -- Val ;-) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Valerie Sutton Visit the SignWritingSite: https://www.SignWriting.org |
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