Autoexec Entries

[TonyMan]

I recently installed a new motherboard and did a clean install of WIN98se. As usual, one program created an autoecec.bat with a line refering to it, but some new lines have appeared that confuse me. They are:

@CHK4OS
@IF ERRORLEVEL==1 GOTO Found_OS
@TYPE INSTOS.MSG
:Found_OS

Any idea why this is there & what it is accomplishing?

[gyoung]

This looks like something that might have been left by the Windows install.

@CHK4OS - runs something to look to see if the OS has been installed. This could be useful when Windows is rebooting during the setup process.
@IF ERRORLEVEL==1 GOTO Found_OS - if the CHK4OS finds something it looks like it skips the next line.
@TYPE INSTOS.MSG - if it gets here it types a message at the dos prompt that says something like "Install OS - Y/N?" Thus the name INSTOS.MSG
:Found_OS - The label that line 2 jumps to so we cans skip line 3.

I would search and see if you have a file INSTOS.MSG on your machine to see what it says.

[This message has been edited by gyoung (edited 07-05-2001).]

[TonyMan]

You're right, gyoung. I found the file. It's got two small paragraphs explaining that Windows can be installed by booting from floppy or CD. Guess I'll get rid of it.

Thanks