dos

Hi, Was trying add a persistent route via the dos line i.e. c:\route add 192.10.12.0 mask 255.255.255.0 192.10.11.254 -p but on execution all the os kept on saying is c:\the request operation requires elevation am in local and domain admin groups, connected to the network etc etc any ideas?

I have a flash drive that has been sitting around for awhile, I finally decided to do somehting with it, and low and behold, its FAT32. Obviously, Vista had some serious issues with FAT32 flash drives, but I had high hopes for 7. It worked the first time I inserted it, and then when I tried to...

It is a good idea to have some kind of backup/restore tools in OS. The way Microsoft has made it has been totally useless and even dangerous. In every version of MSDOS or Windows the file format of the backup has been different. Backup made with WinXP SP2 can not be opened with WinXP SP3. We...

MS SmallBasic might be great, if they only add some more commands to it. Now it is just misses some of the most important tools for for example string handling. Basic is great language, when you want to make something simple fast. I have allways wondered, why MS didn't make Basic the command...

I wanted to try the windows 7 beta build 7000, so I installed on my Dell Precision and all went well, I worked with it for a while, but I had to use the Dell machine for another task for which I have to install windows server 2003, I started by inserting the server CD, and it went through all...

Due to getting a CODE 5 error when trying to boot from a known good DVD, is there any way I can boot the PC into a DOS type environment and then run setup from the DVD? PC reads the DVD fine but won't boot from it! I tried being crafty by booting from an XP disk, going to the recovery console...

On Vista I have a shortcut on the desktop to a DOS Program. The program runs all right. However, I can't change the icon's appearance. It's all white with the shortcut arrow through it. When I hit change icon, to choose a different icon, nothing happens to the appearance of the icon on the...

I have a shortcut on the desktop to a DOS Program. The program runs all right. However, I can't change the icon's appearance. It's all white with the shortcut arrow through it. When I hit change icon, to choose a different icon, nothing happens to the appearance of the icon on the desktop...

Hey: I had this DOS program running on Vista for over a year, but I had to reinstall Vista over the weekend and now I can't seem to get the program to work again. The program is in a folder labeled Easy for the C: drive. I have the config.nt and autoexec.nt files in the Easy Folder and in...

Well, from looking at the versions of MS-DOS, you can see that version 8 was the last version of DOS, but was striped down. So, you could say that MS-DOS 7 was the last more or less. So, just wondering do you think that Windows 7 will be the last version of Windows? I think it is...

Hi all, I have installed MS Vista on 50GB partitioned drive from an overall 74.5 hard disk space. I left the other half to install Suse Linux 10. After installing MS Vista, I could not see the other half of the partition drive I created using Vista partition feature during installation...