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  • Not like you all care but this is how I beat Microsoft in the battle for my PC...

  • Somehow, we still tolerate each other. Eventually this will be the only forum left.
Somehow, we still tolerate each other. Eventually this will be the only forum left.
 #20735  by Imakeholesinu
 Tue Dec 28, 2004 11:29 am
<div style='font: 10pt Arial; text-align: left; '>So I did a search on my harddrive from my dad's PC to find the files that had been modified last. Opened up the userenv.log file and guess what it said? Could not load autoexec.bat. I'm like, wtf? So I search for an autoexec.bat file on my PC. Umm...scarey, no Autoexec.bat. No virus, no spyware, no autoexec.bat...very fucked up. Windows ate my Autoexec.bat. So I replaced both autoexec.bat files (system 32 and root C:\ directory) with the ones from my dad's, popped in the drive at home, and she boots like a dream. Anyone have any information on how or why something like this would happen? Because I'm completely miffed.</div>

 #20743  by SineSwiper
 Wed Dec 29, 2004 12:18 am
<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>Windows still uses AUTOEXEC.BAT? I find that even more scary.</div>

 #20745  by ManaMan
 Wed Dec 29, 2004 12:32 am
<div style='font: 12pt Arial; text-align: left; '>It's there for backwards compatibility.</div>