kauffman@freezer.it.udel.edu (philip kauffman) (12/15/90)
I am quite new to win3 and I would like to set it up so that when I boot the system, it will load a number of window programs in at the same time as windows is starting. In essence, what I want to do is put things into the system folder if this were a mac. I understand that if I only wanted to have one thing load up, I could put it as a command line switch in my autoexec.bat file, but I have about four things I want started (ex - clock, screen saver, system graph, and a free memory). I have gone through the users guide, but nothing seems to help. By the way, I have a 386sx w/2 meg and I am running in standard mode. Help me Please! Philip Kauffman (kauffman@freezer.it.udel.edu)
hughes@maelstrom.Berkeley.EDU (Eric Hughes) (12/16/90)
The 'load=' and 'run=' lines of win.ini start up applications at Windows boot time. This is clearly documented. Eric Hughes hughes@ocf.berkeley.edu
rm3@stc06.ornl.gov (MCBROOM R C) (12/21/90)
In article <39132@nigel.ee.udel.edu> you write: >I am quite new to win3 and I would like to set it up so that when I boot >the system, it will load a number of window programs in at the same time >as windows is starting. In essence, what I want to do is put things into > The following is an excerpt from 'win.ini' with the comments from the WIN 2.0 version. {:-) Use notepad to enter the names or .pif names for the programs you want loaded. Note that the "." convention for the current directory (in this case \windows) is understood by the startup interpreter. ; Lines preceded by a semicolon are comments ( i.e. this line is ; a comment ). Comments may not contain an equal sign. ; [windows] ; The "load" entry determines what applications should be loaded ; as an icon when you start Windows. load=clock.exe .\files\to_do.crd wp.pif pcdos.pif ; The "run" entry determines which applications will run when Windows ; is started. Specify an application name or a file with one of the ; file extensions listed in the [extensions] section. The former simply ; runs the application; the latter not only runs the application, but ; also loads the specified file into the application. run=.\files\mcbroom.cal Have fun Robert