i recentialy put windows xp h/e on my laptop and now i dont have dos
i have command line but i dont like that
i was wondering if anyone can give me a copy of dos or direct me to some help
thanks for ur time
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i recentialy put windows xp h/e on my laptop and now i dont have dos
i have command line but i dont like that
i was wondering if anyone can give me a copy of dos or direct me to some help
thanks for ur time
what do you mean you don't have dos?as you are saying you do have command line.it's not pure dos but you can do some basic things.but don't forget that microsoft is trying to do everything in order to prevent users from having or using dos.i can imagine that in the new windows xp release we might not even have command prompt!this is the company's policy.
windows XP has no DOs in it, its not like windows 95, 98, ME, and 2,000, theres no real DOS under it, its just a command line option that lets you do things (in my opinion its not that great of a command line either)
http://www.freedos.org
http://dmoz.org/Computers/Software/O...Systems/POSIX/
http://dmoz.org/Computers/Software/Operating_Systems/
that should keep you busy in reading about OSs:) enjoy
You can type 'command' at a run box.
This will not open the XP cmd utility but an sort of DOS prompt.
It says Windows DOS.
the-twinge,
If you good like to make XP "Dos" as most simliar as old Windows Dos then go to Start/Programs/Accessories/Dos command or go to Start/Run and type command (as noODle says above). Then, when the "Dos" window is open, rhgt-click your mouse over the title bar of the window and there select the properties option.
The first tab you have is "Options" where you can set the cursor size; display option, either full screen or a window mode; command history; and edit options. The Edit Options include QuickEdit mode which allows you to select and copy and paste DOS text; insert mode; and AutoComplete mode. Command history includes Buffer size which is the number of commands to remember so they can be recalled by scrolling by pressing the up arrow / down arrow.
The second tab is "Font". Here you can set the default font and font size which selects the window size.
The third tab is "Layout". Here you set the screen buffer size and the windows size. By setting the screen buffer size to a higher number (mine is at 500), you buffer lines displayed and you will be able to scroll back to see them. You can also set the windows size in colum width and lines.
The last tab is "Colors". Here you can choose text and background colors.
Change these options to make you XP Dos at least more similar to do old Windows Dos.
Hope it helps you, bye.
i'm sorry darkraider but that does absaloutly nothing to help his query....
its like saying heres a cardboard box lets paint it black with a green X - well it might not be a proper xbox but it sure looks like one >_<
I don't mean to sound patronising or anything but i think the question is more to do with accessing a full dos system were all commands are usable - which am afraid is just not possible on an XP machine yes there is a command prompt but it is not the full old style dos shell like the 9x systems had.
the only way i think you could get that back is to partition ur drive and slap an older version of windows on it - a friend of mine had the same probs as xp didn't like alot of his old dos based games....
his solution however was to purchase a really cheap old machine like a 166mhz or something which cost next to nothing but does exactly what he needs - runs the old dos games :) heh and better than xp does 2 ;) lol
v_Ln
valhallen,
I never said it will be the same as real old DOS. Just trying to help the-twinge. (Sorry NoODle, i'll use your answer as example, nothing against you), valhallen, look at noODle answer above, wow!!! what a real good answer to deserve positive AntiPoints. Why don't you answer to him then too. I just tried to help the-twinge and he/she will decide what to do reading at the options we give him/her.
So then, why are you telling the-twinge to get another machine?, what this has to be with his/her question, he/she never ask to buy another machine. See, you have your opinions/solutions to give... and i have mine. :D
Thanks, bye.
Thy not be rude
Thy not flame
Thy talk nicely
Thy be polite to fella members
Otherwise,
Thou shalt be flushed of AP's../..
(General AO policy..)
sorry raider - i got a lil touch of food poisoning atm....just got sent home from work as i was spending more time in toilets than i was on the phone :(
and when i ain't feeling to good i can be a lil short - so my appologies
oh and invader heres some i made up just for you ;)
The 10 commandments of JP instead of JC
You shall have no other sites before me
You shall not make for yourselves an idol (they had their golden cow....cult of the dead cow - a coincidence!? oO)
You shall not misuse the name of Antionline
Remember that everyday is an Antionline day
Honor your father and your father
You shall not murder (neg someone just to get them banned)
You shall not commit adultery (have multiple accounts)
You shall not steal (remember always quote sources)
You shall not give false testimony (esp when questioned by the FBI about exactly where u got all of those cd-r's with windows xp prof on them)
You shall not covet (another members ap's)
yes yes lame i know but lets see any of the rest of you out there with fevers do better.....i dares ya :P
v_Ln
lol valhallen, masterpiece, now check this out,
i was talking to my girlfriend y'day on the phone, i had given her a zipped file with a password, and it had a text file on how to ..let me not mention, anyway, so we started talkin in computer terms and relate it to sex :
like this :
She : I was unzipping the folder you gave me the other day
Me : hmm..you need a password, i aint that easy
She : sho' sho' , i tried to extract the file , it was hard.
Me : huh ???????????????????????????
( i didnt know what she was talking about until soon )
She : really, man, like i took it outta there and moved it into another folder.
Me : hmm..any data loss ?
She : No, i liked the feel, so , i just kept shifting from in and out of the folder, and started doin it fast.
Me : im listening ( by this time, i was like "WTF" )
She : then, i got tired and like thought, that's all. Then i moved the file back into the folder, zipped it and thought "well done".
Me : for sure, im gonna tell that on AO tomorrow !
She : WHat ? what's that ?
Me : nothin, nothin, just another zip folder :o
She : you're like a computer, know how ?
Me : how ?
She : You are supposed to help me solve problems, but half the time you are the problem. As soon as i commit to you, i realize that, if i had waited a little longer i could have had a better model.
( we laugh, but then i come back with a super-liner )
Me : Well, no , it's the other way around : as soon as i make a commitment to you, i find myself spending half my paycheck on accessories for you.
eh, val, that's original for you :D
man u have one weird ass relationship ;)
if i was to talk to my g/friend about something like that it would go
me I'm unzipping your folder
Her A what folder?
me You know like a compressed folder? Same kinda thing as rar?? has a wee .zip at end of it?
her Oh right computer stuff - yeah can we talk about something else??
......:: And can you believe she has more computer qualifications than me >_<;
v_Ln
Because she has more qualifications than you is the reason i percieve she's too bored to talk about it, well mine is interested , totally :p
ah anyway...
oh btw i loved this quicktip by zeroone -
Passwords are like underpants. Change them often enough (especially if asked to), use only your own ones, don't keep them visible, don't brag about them and remember that changing them too often is not a sin.
heh nah she didn't spend much time doing computers - just an A-level in IT
but still more than I've got.....my school didn't do any computer courses :(
ahhh well
v_Ln
just a question...if you don't have DOS...then wot da hell is that black and grey thing you get if you force XP not to load??
hey this is the twinge, im not signed in i dont think but anyway, i no about command line, i hate it, i like dos 6.22 and the windows 98se dos, i would like to get ms-dos on my laptop, wich is win xp, all i want to no is if there is a way to get dos on my pc and whare or how do i do that
p.s. no offence but is it really necesarie to talk about ur g/f's in here? if it is then by all means continu but if u can move it to p/m or another thread then please do thank you
twinge.....
ok so we have gone a lil of topic but if you read up before my and invader started muckin round you would see that the question had already been answered in the thread
so i don't think the fact that we went of on a tangent should cause any preoblems do you?? I could even go into the fact that the thread was posted in general chit chat as well but I won't ;)
I agree that it can be annoying when you post a thread only to watch it disapear in a completly different direction as a couple of people start talking about something different in it to what it was started about.....but i find this only annoying if the question has not already been answered while in this case it had been......
what fun would it be if no thread ever went off on a tangent about something or other?? its part of what keeps pulling me back to AO - you can never tell where a convo could end up....same as in real life. Plus this kind of conversation in a thread is part of what has helped build the high level of community in AO.
Sorry if i sound like i am preaching but.....errrrrm actually am not :D
v_Ln
sorry val but thanks for the info and go ahead chating in my thread... as long as u had me some antipoints lol j/k its alright go ahead