95 Multi Booter v4.0 By Fred Salerno NOTE: This program requires Windows 95. ---------------------- WHAT IT IS... ---------------------- This program allows you to select which way to boot up Windows 95. By default, you are brought straight into Windows, but with this utility you can choose. You have 3 options: 1 - Command Prompt Which boots up Windows 95 and goes to the C:\> prompt, not Windows itself and is an alternative to choice #4. 2 - Windows 95 GUI Which is the normal 95 boot sequence which goes into Windows. 3 - Internal Boot Menu Which is the internal Windows 95 menu (Safe mode, command prompt, Network safe mode, etc..) 4 - Previous DOS Which boots the computer with the last version of DOS installed prior to Windows 95. This program has been tested with the "Windows 95 Final Beta" and with the official release of Windows 95, currently available in stores. It works flawlessly, but as always, no guarantees are made. I may be contacted at: SALERNOF@GATE.NET ---------------------- HOW TO INSTALL ---------------------- The easiest way to install this is to unzip the archive into a temporary area. Then run the SETUP program. Click on INSTALL BOOTER, then specify the Windows directory and where booter should be installed. If you are using DriveSpace compression, click the "Compression Option" and choose your host-drive. If you are not using compression, do not adjust these two settings. ---------------------- HOW TO RUN 95BOOTER ---------------------- 95Booter can be run from Windows 95. The best way is to add the shortcut, 95BOOTER to the Start Button, adding the program 95BOOTER.EXE. ---------------------- HOW TO RETURN TO WIN95 AFTER PREVIOUS DOS ---------------------- If you have chosen Previous DOS and wish to return to Win95, simply go into the booter directory (wherever you installed 95booter), type 95B and press ENTER. ---------------------- IF YOU DO NOT HAVE PREVIOUS DOS FILES ---------------------- Some installations of Windows 95 do not save the previous dos information. This can still be easily done. You will need a copy of an old DOS boot disk. Any MS DOS version should work. I would suggest not using an original dos-boot disk. Use a copy of a dos-boot-disk instead. At the Windows 95 prompt (or in a window) Insert the dos-disk and type these lines: ATTRIB A:IO.SYS -S -H -R ATTRIB A:MSDOS.SYS -S -H -R COPY A:IO.SYS C:\IO.DOS COPY A:MSDOS.SYS C:\MSDOS.DOS COPY A:COMMAND.COM C:\COMMAND.DOS This allows the old-dos files to be renamed *.DOS in your root directory. From there, The MultiBooter can function flawlessly! ---------------------- HOW TO UN-INSTALL MULTI BOOTER ---------------------- Go to the Booter Directory and run the UNINSTAL.EXE program. ---------------------- COMMAND LINE OPTIONS FOR 95BOOTER ---------------------- The Windows executable also features command line switches. They are as follows: DOS - Previous Dos boot PROMPT - Windows 95 Command Prompt boot MENU - Windows 95 Internal Menu GUI - Normal Win95 graphical boot-up ---------------------- And, as always, I am not to be held responsible for anything that you may do wrong or can go wrong. There is no warranty for this program. You know the usual speech...