Exit To Dos

[GeekyMoose]

Is There A Way To Exit Directly To Dos From Win2k. I Currently Have To Restart My Pc To Enter The Dos Platform.

[degsy]

I don't think there is.

Are you dual booting into DOS or using a bootdisk?

[GeekyMoose]

At the moment I am dual booting.

I actually just found a utility that appears to allow WIN2K to exit to DOS but now the problem I have is getting the himem386 to work. As far as I know you edit the autoexec and config to recognize himem but I forget the syntax. Any suggestions.

[degsy]

What utility are you using?

I thought W2K parsed the autoexec and config (.sys or .nt) leaving them redundant

[SuperSparks]

You could use Virtual PC (or VMWare, but it's a lot more expensive), and install MS-DOS in that. That way you can run DOS from within Win2000. It's available as a 45-day trial if you want to give it a go before spending any money:

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtualpc/default.mspx

[GeekyMoose]

I Have Looked At That As An Alternative But Never Really Tried It. I'll Give It A Try And See What It Can Do.

[GeekyMoose]

I Thought So To. I Found The Utility On The Net And It Seems To Work Fine. It Appears To Be Exiting To The C: Drive From The D: Drive. The Main Issue Is That I Need To Edit The Config.sys And Autoexec.bat Files To Be Able To Access The Himem386. This Is The Major Problem.

[mcjamesk]

http://www.thetechguide.com/downloads.html
try this for editing the files, MSCONFIG for XP works with 2KPro