restarting in command prompt

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Alan

when ever i try to start my computer in command prompt mode, the only option
is safe mode with command prompt. is there a way to just have it in command
prompt.
 
Alan said:
when ever i try to start my computer in command prompt mode, the only
option is safe mode with command prompt. is there a way to just have
it in command prompt.
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Recovery Console mode.

And before you ask what it is, just Start -> Help and Support and search
on it, or:

- Go to http://support.microsoft.com/.
- Select Windows XP as the product.
- Seach on "How to use Recovery Console".

314058 is probably what you want. Recovery Console is NOT the same as
DOS; you don't get the desktop GUI. There is no DOS in Windows XP.
 
Hi, Alan.

No. WinXP is not built on MS-DOS, as Win9x/ME were, so we cannot "get out
of Windows and just run in MS-DOS". WinXP does include an emulator that
seems to be MS-DOS, but is not. When we click on Command Prompt, the
emulator opens a "DOS" window that runs almost all of the familiar old
MS-DOS commands, but it is not actually MS-DOS. So, Safe Mode with Command
Prompt is as close to MS-DOS as we can get in WinXP.

There are two other ways to boot into a Command Prompt, but neither are
truly WinXP. The first is to boot from the WinXP CD-ROM and choose Repair.
This opens the Recovery Console, which presents an interface that looks much
like MS-DOS, but is not. It runs many DOS-like commands, but the results
are often not what a MS-DOS user expects.

The other way is to have WinXP create an MS-DOS startup diskette, then boot
with that diskette. Of course, this cannot read any volume formatted as
NTFS, so it may not be of much use unless your drives are formatted FAT (16
or 32), or unless you have a third-party utility to allow MS-DOS to access
NTFS.

Why do you need (or want) to start in Command Prompt? If you tell us what
you are trying to accomplish, maybe we can help you do that without starting
in Command prompt.

RC
 
there is a file i am trying to delete. it can only be deleted when not in
windows because it is being used by windows. i tryed to delete it while in
safe mode with command prompt but it didnt work. i searched on the internet
and to delete the file you cant be in safe mode at all. and it can suposedly
be deleted if your os is windows xp.

ps.
the file is index.dat
 
Alan said:
there is a file i am trying to delete. it can only be deleted when
not in windows because it is being used by windows. i tryed to delete
it while in safe mode with command prompt but it didnt work. i
searched on the internet and to delete the file you cant be in safe
mode at all. and it can suposedly be deleted if your os is windows xp.

ps.
the file is index.dat
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Easiest way to delete them is to log off the account (Not switch user, but
completely log off) and use the default System Administrator account to
delete them. If you are using XP Pro, simply reboot and when the welcome
screen appears, press CTRL+ALT+DEL twice to display the system administrator
account. Log
onto this account, open Windows Explorer, go to C:\Documents and
Settings\<user account>, locate the files and delete away.

If you are using XP Home, you will need to go to Safe Mode to access the
system account. Reboot and when the system starts to initialize, start
pressing the F8 key continuously until the black screen menu appears. Use
the Arrow keys to select Safe Mode and log on with the Administrator account
you see there.

This account does not typically have a password associated with it, unless
you specified a password during installation.

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Regards,

Ronnie Vernon
Microsoft MVP
Windows Shell/User

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