Lab 2-3 Windows 98 and Windows XP System Files

Yes, this is on the certification. It sucks, but you need to know it.

 

Go online and Google system file descriptions. When I typed Windows 98 system files the second link down had a Microsoft Technet Article.

 

Windows 98 Files

File Name

Purpose

Where it’s located

IO.SYS

 

 

COMMAND.COM

 

 

WIN.COM

 

 

SYSTEM.DAT

 

 

SYSTEM.INI

 

 

WIN.INI

 

 

EXPLORER.EXE

 

 

DETLOG.TXT

 

 

MSDOS.SYS

 

 

 

Annoyances.org is a great website for finding solutions to your problems on any Windows OS. The problem with the Knowledge Base is that it only gets updated once Microsoft acknowledges that there is a problem and publishes it into the KB. Annoyances is full of solutions from people around the world.

 

  1. Go to annoyances.org and find out how to get a mouse to work in DOS. What is the URL?

 

 

  1. Are all the solutions reasonable?

 

 

  1. Why or why not?

 

Windows XP Files (Again, I Googled Windows XP system files, first link took me to a resource.)

File Name

Purpose

Where it’s located

BOOT.INI

 

 

NTDETECT.COM

 

 

NTLDR

 

 

PAGEFILE.SYS

 

 

NTBOOTDD.SYS

 

 

NTOSKRNLE.EXE

 

 

NTKRNLPA.EXE

 

 

HAL.DLL

 

 

WIN32.SYS

 

 

NTDLL.DLL

 

 

KERNAL32.DLL

ADVAPI32.DLL

USER32.DLL

GDI32.DLL

 

 

 

Which of the above are the essential startup files in Windows XP?