Colin's Weekly Tip: DOS Junkies Unite

[Colin]

I'm a bit of a DOS junkie myself, I'm more comfortable with it then I am with the pretty Windows GUI. I find I'm using the command prompt quite a bit while within Windows. Because I'm also quite lazy, I find that the auto complete function in the DOS prompt quite invaluable, however it's disabled by default. Luckily enabling it is quite easy, all we have to do is some registry editing.<BR><BR>If you load up Regedit (Start, Run and type Regedit and then press the ok button) follow this path HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE -> SOFTWARE -> Microsoft -> Command Processor. Rightclock on the CompleteChar DWORD value and change it's value to 9 (does not matter if you use Hexidecimal or Decimal). <BR><BR>Reboot your computer and now when you're mucking around in the DOS prompt after you enter the initial DOS command (like CD, Copy, etc) simply hit the tab button to scroll through the list until hit what you're looking for. This works with Win2k as well as WinXP.<BR>

[RAAF453Shep]

HEEEELLLLPPP ! I am at a loss. <BR> I am currently trying to solve a dos bypass , on an old 3.11 workgroup system. it gets to a point , shows the logo for 3.11 and then says it cant open the "hercules.crt screen file" .... <BR> I searched M$ , and didnt find much help there, and the old (77) lady doesnt want much , but also doesnt have the 3.1 disc's to reinstall and correct it.<BR> and it wont load anything over it. treid w95 &98 , without success.<BR><BR> should I just junk the pc, and find her a newer one in the newspaper ?

[Colin]

RAAF453Shep unfortunately I do not monitor this forum very much so you really shouldn't post these type of questions here... They're better suited in the general hardware forums.<BR><BR>As for your error, I think something is wrong with the videocard/monitor driver.<BR><BR>Honestly I'm nto sure if you can fix this type of error! <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-sad.gif" border="0"><BR><BR>Repost this question in the general forum though... You never know what you may get! <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif" border="0">