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Customizing Win95                                                            
InfoPak Magazine                                                             
Copyright (c) 1996 By Don Sausa                                              
                                                                             
                                                                             
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--- Customize My Boot Up Please ---                                          
                                                                             
I've been asked more than once, can you boot directly to DOS                 
instead of going to Windows 95?  The answer - yes, you can.  Its             
not as complicated as it sounds, all you really need is a text               
editor to accomplish such a task.                                            
                                                                             
First, you must ask yourself which DOS do you want to boot                   
under - since Windows offers you a way to boot to your original              
DOS.  In order to do so, you must edit a file called MSDOS.SYS,              
which is located in your root directory (e.g. C:\).  But first, you          
will need to take MSDOS.SYS's read-only and hidden attributes.               
Here's how:                                                                  
                                                                             
C:                                                                           
CD C:\                                                                       
ATTRIB -R -H MSDOS.SYS                                                       
                                                                             
Now, pop out your favorite text editor (e.g. Notepad, EDIT.COM), and         
open the file.  The file should look like this:                              
                                                                             
    [Paths]                                                                  
    UninstallDir=C:\                                                         
    WinDir=C:\WINDOWS                                                        
    WinBootDir=C:\WINDOWS                                                    
    HostWinBootDrv=C                                                         
                                                                             
    [Options]                                                                
    BootMulti=1                                                              
    Logo=0                                                                   
    BootGUI=0                                                                
    BootWin=0                                                                
                                                                             
The above settings will boot to your old DOS, and not display the Windows    
95 logo.  The system works by 1's and 0's, 0 is off, 1 is on.  If you want   
to boot to your DOS that included with Windows 95, you can take off          
BootMulti and BootWin.  If you want the Windows 95 logo to be displayed,     
you can turn it on by replacing it with  Logo=1.  If you want to boot to     
Windows without the logo, you can put Logo=0 and BootGUI=1.                  
                                                                             
For temporary boot ups, you can simply use your function keys.  What I       
mean by temporary is that the next boot, it goes back to the original.       
Here are the "ways" of temporary boot ups:                                   
                                                                             
F4 - Boots the system to your previous version of MS-DOS, but BootMulti=1    
must be in your MSDOS.SYS.                                                   
                                                                             
F5 - Boots the system to Windows 95 Safe Mode, it simply bypasses startup    
files (e.g. AUTOEXEC.BAT, CONFIG.SYS) and loads only real-mode drivers.      
                                                                             
F6 - Boots the system to Safe Mode with networking capabilities.             
                                                                             
F8 - Displays the Windows 95 Boot menu, where you can choose options on      
how to boot, Safe Mode or command line-to-line confirmation (where you       
confirm each start up file to be loaded manually).                           
                                                                             
Shift+F5 - Boots the system to Safe Mode without the GUI (Graphical User     
Interface).                                                                  
                                                                             
Shift+F8 - Creates a boot log and a line-to-line confirmation of your        
start-up files.                                                              
                                                                             
Ctrl+F5 - Boots the system to Safe Mode but bypasses compression drivers.    
(e.g. DoubleSpace, DriveSpace)                                               
                                                                             
                                                                             
--- Customize My Shutdown Screens Please ---                                 
                                                                             
Now that you know how to boot to DOS directly or just a temporary boot       
up, its time to learn another customizing feature Windows 95 gives you.      
(Even though its not documented)                                             
                                                                             
When you shutdown through Windows 95, it'll display two screens, one         
tells you that Windows 95 is trying to "prepare" your computer to shutdown   
and where it updates and saves its drivers, and another one that tells       
you its safe to turn off your computer.  These shutdown screens *can*        
be changed, though you will need a bitmap editor such as Paint which is      
supplied by Windows 95.  In your \WINDOWS directory (assuming that           
directory is your Windows directory) you will find the two screens under     
the names of - LOGOW.SYS and LOGOS.SYS.  These bitmaps are 320x400.          
I would suggest using LView, a complexed graphics viewer and editor,         
which can easily resize graphics as easily as turning on your monitor.       
LView is available for download at CyberSpace 2000.                          

