Posted in Bootstrike Forums by wmccain] Windows XP includes TWO command-line processors, CMD.EXE and COMMAND.COM. The second one, COMMAND.COM, is a stripped-down version of the command processor from DOS. The Windows XP version of COMMAND.COM is severely restricted in its capabilities (lacks long filename support and many other features familiar from Windows 98SE), so it is all-but-unusable. Furthermore, it turns out that there are TWO ways to run CMD.

First, start up SmartDrive to speed things up. Next, run WINNT from the I386 folder. Setup should launch, warn you if you don't have SmartDrive loaded, copy the cd to a temporarily to your hard disk and reboot your computer. A more detailed guide.

Windows XP does not have pure DOS mode, the only two ways are to execute "CMD"(preferred) or "COMMAND" from the run dialog box. If you want the real pure one, you can boot up from a DOS/Win95/98/ME boot disk or create one using Windows XP itself (insert a diskette, right click the drive in My Computer, Format, check Make System Disk) or you can install 2 OS's (like Windows 95/98/ME, which allows you to access pure DOS).

You might want to remove the Microsoft JVM, which Microsoft no longer supports, in favor of the more recent Sun Microsystems JVM. To remove the Microsoft JVM, perform the following steps: The HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\AdvancedOptions\JAVA_VM registry subkey (to remove the Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) options When Internet Explorer 7 is installed on Windows XP, ctfmon.exe runs in the background without purpose, and when the Run entry for ctfmon.

XP, Windows 2000, and Windows NT don't contain DOS, although XP can create DOS-bootable disks. All three OSs support the cmd.exe command shell, which lets you run NT-equivalent DOS commands. In XP, go to Start, Programs, Accessories or click Start, Run, then type to start the command shell. For earlier application support, you might want to try the command.com shell, which is more compatible with MS-DOS than cmd.exe is. In XP, click Start, Run, then type to start the command.com shell. Command.

No. Windows XP is not based on DOS, as is Windows 9x. However, Windows XP does support a DOS-like command line environment, and you can run most DOS applications--and even many DOS games--in Windows XP. Windows XP also supports an optional boot-time command line environment called the Recover Console. As its name suggests, the Recovery Console is only designed to be used in the event of a system problem. To enable it, insert your Windows XP CD-ROM and type

The 200LX may be a few years old, but it is a far better computing device than any Windows CE machine. A few of its strengths: Pocket Quicken built in (keep track of your finances without spending any extra money for the financial software)

Note that "command" doesn't support long file names. It displays files and folders in 8.3 format. "cmd" has full long file name support.

You need to put state entry for a move (call it Move A) before all other moves that have commands that are subsets of Move A. So if Move A has command "D, F, a" then Move A has to be place before another move that has command "a" in the CMD file.

The term Windows includes a broad range of Microsoft technologies and products and is often used to refer to the desktop operating system. Windows XP is the latest desktop operating-system software and is available in multiple versions for business and home users. The term Windows Embedded refers to the Microsoft family of embedded operating systems for smart, connected, and small- or reduced-footprint devices.

Well, firstly we are developing a Windows user interface. This will be Win-32, i.e. it will run under Windows 95 and Windows NT. But since the compiler is a non-graphical application, and the DOS interface runs quite happily under all flavours of Windows already, it has not been as high a priority as making sure that the basic functionality is top-notch. In other words, we believe an excellent compiler with a DOS front-end is better than an average compiler with a Windows front end.

Answer: Due to Windows NT's lack (this also applies to Windows 2000 and Windows XP) of a native DOS mode, you may face many difficulties when trying to run a DOS game under any of these operating systems. Unfortunately the DOS emulation built into them does not fully replace "real" DOS and this results in games either not running at all or at least running with frequent crashes. There is no work-around for this problem at this time.

Because workspaces are marked as System Folders, so we can associate a special icon with them. Of course this doesn't help when you're in dos mode. Use dir /as to see system folders.

To create a directory in a command prompt/DOS window you will first need to open a DOS window (described above). Once you have done this you need to navigate to the directory that you wish to place the new directory in (described above). Once you have gotten this far you simply type the following "md [NEW DIRECTORY NAME]" where you specify the name of the directory you would like to create by replacing the "[NEW DIRECTORY NAME]" in the preceding string with the name you want.

The core system is based on the command line, but there is the X Window System with provides a Graphical User Interface environment. Window managers (such as Afterstep, fvwm, Enlighment) and desktop environments (GNOME, KDE) build on top of X to provide a total GUI experience. Are there 'windows-like' Internet clients like Eudora, Netscape, etc. available on Linux? How about ICQ? IRC. Netscape is available for Linux. There are also graphical e-mail programs for X.

The copy command in DOS and Windows 9x will not copy zero-length (empty) files. The copy command in NT and Windows 2000 will. I'm talking about FILES here, not folders. Why would you have an empty file? You might have a program or batch file that creates a file to log output, but then no output is actually generated. Presto... empty file.

There are several differences between Windows XP Home and Windows XP Pro. The main differences are that Windows XP Pro is better for networking as it has more features. For a full comparison of the differences, please click here.

Note that doing any of the below will erase all data in your hard disk! You can boot from a Windows 9x boot disk, reformat the XP partition and install a previous version of Windows. If XP is installed using NTFS file system, you'll first have to use FDISK to delete the partition, type FDISK at the prompt. Once you are at the menu, select "Delete Non-dos Partition.

Use the Unlocker utility. This file will unlock all file handles on the file/folder and even offer to delete it for you before the program locks it again!

Microsoft is aiming to combine the features of Windows Me for the consumer, and reliability of Windows 2000 for businesses and power users into one new operating system. This operating system in its' different flavors will have new features for gaming, multimedia applications, audio, etc. in addition to features for networking, development, etc. for businesses and power users.

Windows XP comes in Professional and Home versions. Servers will also come out, but they are still in beta testing.

Windows XP Home is $99 for an upgrade copy and $199 for the full version. Windows XP Pro is $199 for the upgrade version and $299 for a full copy.

If you want your web space URL to be http://www.yourcompany.com then you will either need your own web server, or to rent a virtual server. The latter is really just space on someone else's web server which has been configured to respond to requests for your domain. This service is generally slightly more expensive than non-virtual web space, where you simply have a subdirectory on someone else's web server, and your URL incorporates their domain name, such as http://www.someprovider.

No. CLDC specifies the core libraries and virtual machine features for J2ME implementations on resource-constrained devices. A CLDC implementation includes a virtual machine. For instance, KVM is included in the CLDC reference implementation.

K virtual machine (KVM) is a Java virtual machine that provides the basis for the CLDC reference implementation (RI). K stands for "Kilobyte" virtual machine, referring to the small footprint of the platform. The K virtual machine is very small -- starting from approximately 70K in size.

XP and later OSs come with a utility called Driverquery that lets you display information about all drivers on the system. From the command prompt, type driverquery /v You can also display the information in various formats. For example, to output the driver details in comma-separated value (CSV) format to ease the process of importing the data into a spreadsheet, type Also, be aware that several of the switches (i.e., /s, /u, and /p) let you execute the command against a remote system.