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My first guess would be that someone has edited c:\windows\exittodos.pif to
run win.com instead of command.com, or something like that. I don't have
unfettered access to a Windows PC to play with this and see what happens,
but IIRC, the exittodos.pif if what gets executed when you tell Windows that
you want to exit to DOS mode. If that's not it, then probably some similar
mechanism (an autoexec.dos?) that tells the machine how to come up in
command prompt mode may have similarly been played with, to behave as you
describe.

insert std disclaimers; I am not responsible for the misuse or abuse of this
information.

Greg Stigers
http://www.cgiusa.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Hula [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Saturday, December 25, 1999 2:47 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: OT: PC Startup Problems

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If you request DOS mode, it says it is running my DOS
program, times out and continues on into normal windows mode.
        Tom Hula
        Victor S. Barnes Company
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