easiest way to edit autoexec.bat

[medic13]

I want to get rid of all those C: before windows loads there are like 10 help me remove them please

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[sea69]

hi

are they all things that have been 'remmed' out by you (or someone else)??

you need to be carefull about deleting things.. this is what you mean I think.

remarking them [rem \ xyz]

just has them not do anything.

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[jpm]

One of the easiest ways on editing autoexec.bat is to put a semi-colon at the start of the line. If I remember correctly autoexec.bat is a file which loads batch files when booting. Batch files are simply files that start and stop with out the user having to run them. If your autoexec.bat has a lot of lines then I would work through putting a semi-colon at the start of each line. This way if the system goes a bit funny then you can edit them with a boot disk and EDIT, resave and boot again although I think the system should start fine with out them. By editing in this manor the lines are still there and can easily be replaced.
e.g.
AUTOEXEC.BAT

PCGUIDE
;NETSCRAPE (this line won't be seen)

[Paleo Pete]

Be careful, if anything is in autoexec.bat it might be needed, but usually win95/98 normally do not use autoexec.bat. Everything is run from io.sys and the Start Up folder. You can delete the entire file and the computer will run fine, been there, done that...

If you do have things and don't want to sit there and look at them, make the first line in autoexec.bat read
@ECHO=OFF
That tells it not to display the lines onscreen.

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[DisturbingThePriest]

Another thing to concider before editing your AUTOEXEC.BAT (or any other file ) file is to make sure you create a back up of it, just for precautionary measures. http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/smile.gif

[mike3169]

Originally posted by medic13:
I want to get rid of all those C: before windows loads there are like 10 help me remove them please



If you are seeing C:/ a bunch of times when windows is loading, and nothing after that C:/, that' all, then you have empty lines in your Autoexec.bat file. Go to your Root directory of yoru HDD where your autoexec.bat file is, RIGHT click on it and go to EDIT, that will open it in a notepad for editing. Click somewhere in the notpad to get your Cursor there. Arrow down until you can't go down anymore. If you see that there are a bunch of blank lines, BACKSPACE until your cursor moves up to the end of the last actual command line. The save it.

Mike