Re: Undeletable Autoexec.bat entries

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From: Mistoffolees
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 07:33

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Paul Jackson wrote:

> I wonder if anyone knows why when I delete the following entries from
> autoexec.bat, they magically re-appear after the next boot. I have tried
> REMming them out, deleting them completely and disabling them in MSCONFIG
> without success. They always reappear at the next boot.
>
> HELP!
>
> The following lines are what i'm trying to get rid of (I don't use DOS games
> or applications and don't need sound support for them)
>
> SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 H5 P330  T6
> SET CTSYN=C:\WINDOWS
> C:\PROGRA~1\CREATIVE\SBLIVE\DOSDRV\SBEINIT.COM
>
> An article in Smart Computing said it was OK to get rid of these:
> http://www.smartcomputing.com/editorial/article.asp?article=articles%2Farchi
> ve%2Fl0611%2F59l11%2F59l11%2Easp&guid=gjhc26ie&searchtype=0&WordList=autoexe
> c%2Ebat
>
> Thanks in advance!
> -Paul

See if these same lines also appear in the system.ini file. System.ini can
update the autoexec.bat file. To check if they are really needed, put a
semi-colon (;) in front of each of these lines in the system.ini file.

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