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[Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>]

On Sun, 25 Apr 2004, Ian Scott wrote:

> >win c:\progra~1\wordview   
> >
> >this goes right into wordview 
> >but first loads the desktop.  

> To run just your program in gui mode, edit win.ini and change the shell
> entry to the name of the program to run. I have a program to do this, which
> I run from a dos menu, so I can choose to run command.com so I get just a
> commandline which I can run windows stuff from. I wrote this program, and am
> happy to post it if anyone wants.

We would love to try your program for running non-desktop no-icons Win 
programs.  Could it be used to run two Windows programs in a row, such as 
dialup networking and then realaudio?   
 
> >> > Does anyone know how 
> >to stop the Windows bmp 
> >from coming onscreen while 
> >booting into non-gui mode?  
> >(Is there some file I can just 
> >delete somewhere?).
> 

> As well as editting msdos.sys, you can just create a zero-sized logo.sys
> file in the root of your C drive.

> I did this on my BL laptop, which has no windows, but has a DOS drive
> formatted via win98 format /s. This produced a drive with no msdos.sys, but
> it still did the boot logo thing.

That explains why when we boot a Win98 computer using a Win98 boot floppy 
disk without msdos.sys on it we still get the logo.  But I don't think the 
logo appears when booting a non-Windows computer with a Win98 boot disk 
that does not have msdos.sys.

We will attack this both ways - 0 length logo.sys file on the boot 
floppies and logo=0 on our own Win98 computers.  Thanks again.

I am amazed at how many people even hate the sight of Windows.