Installing DOS tips in WinXP

Skills to be a qualified diyer, you must have a certain level of DOS operation setup skills. Because before installing Windows, the computer has no operating system, can only rely on floppy disk or CD-ROM boot, in fact, is using DOS in the boot system. And if the system has problems, with Safe mode can not enter Windows, also rely on the DOS boot system maintenance repair. Here are some DOS tips for installing and maintaining your system:

The Configuration Tips section, regardless of which version of Windows is installed, requires that you copy dozens of megabytes to hundreds of megabytes of temporary files to your hard disk, so you must load Smartdrv.exe to do disk buffering under DOS. And the SMARTDRV requires the system to first initialize, Load Himem.sys to manage the high-end memory of DOS, so it is not entirely abandoned in the DOS era of the famous Config.sys this file, and in Config.sys add buffers, will make the system copy files faster. Specific Config.sys configurations can be referenced as follows (assuming that your himem.sys and Emm386.exe are in the root directory):

Device=himem.sys/test off (Test:off can remove the steps to detect memory and speed up startup time) Device=mm386.exeoems (load EMM386.EXE to more efficiently configure DOS basic memory)

files=40buffers=40,0 (Dos buffer, can not be ignored, although it occupies only a few KB, the role is very large!) )

Lastdrive=kdos=high,umb Novice Please note: Unless you are upgrading the system in existing Windows. Again installed under DOS, do not load smartdrv, install WINDOWS98, Windows2000 and other mega-operating system, because there is no memory buffer, hard drive will be crazy, read and write loss greatly increased. Copy files, installation time will also be lengthened more than 3 times times! Maintenance Recovery (you run the ghost system under pure DOS, without SMARTDRV assistance, the hard drive will ring to your heartache). Instruction skill Part 1. Process long directory name or Chinese file name some people like to give documents a long name or in Chinese as a filename, when you want to back up the file before installing the system, encountered a long file directory name or Chinese file name, if you are using the standard CD command to enter the directory, you must first switch the Chinese way under DOS, very inconvenient. In fact, do not bother to type the name of the directory, as long as to find a list of all the contents of the DOS version of the compression software can be.

For example, RAR is a good choice ——— run RAR, it will list all the files in the current directory (including hidden files), and you'll be quick and easy by pressing the first letter you want to enter the directory or by moving the cursor to the directory directly with the Up-down key, and then entering the carriage. Press [ESC] to return to the DOS Yao Xian under the C sea guilt. This method is not only suitable for entering the directory named in Chinese, but also for those hidden directories and folders with many levels of subdirectories. For example, Windowstemporaryinter netfiles This directory, in the DOS display is used to replace the long name, the following there are multiple directories, you have to type "cdwindows", and then type "Cdem ...", the trouble is, if the input error will have to start again and use RAR to enter the words, two or three times the key is completed.

The 2.DOSKEY setting Doskey the commands you type by taking a small (almost negligible) memory space, recording all keystrokes you type, and moving the arrow keys on the cursor. For example, you want to copy 10 files to a floppy disk, these files are only different extension number, if you right-click in Windows and then sent to the floppy disk, the operation is more cumbersome; in DOS, once the "copy+ filename + destination disk Location" command is fully typed, In the future, you can use the direction key di Mohan industry to pay the wash, get rid of the suffix name number, and then enter.

The reference setting is, in the Autoexec.bat file, after the path statement, add a sentence lhdoskey. Because in the path, you typically specify the command path for Windows by default, and the system automatically finds Doskey execution.

In addition, Doskey has the advantage of documenting who has done something on your machine.

Examples of referenced statements are as follows: LHC Windowscommand doskey-=dir/w (assuming your DOS program is in this directory, if not, please change the path flexibly according to your machine situation.) That is, the definition of the minus key Jia Feng 魑 column directory instructions. After you set up this, in the DOS column directory, press Jia Ying Teman carriage return is equivalent to typing the "dir/w", very convenient; LH indicates that doskey instructions are placed in high-end position, optional.

Summary: When you use these DOS tips to back up your data, you provide a good installation environment for Windows, which is much better than a standard boot disk. When you have installed Windows correctly, if you do not need the following DOS configuration file, delete it. Note, please boot with the system disk above DOS7.0, or you will not be able to identify the hard disk partitions above 2GB.