I hope someone has a utility that has proven 100% effective. I need to take a pc running windows 95 and have it restart (reboot in MS DOS).
Had posted in the os forum I placed it here as it seemed more like the right place:
I need to do this in a batch file. I know and have used MANY of the utilities out there. But here's the problem, Most of those utilities tell windows 95 to shutdown. And on some machines, Win95 refuses to shutdown all the way. On other machines, when you tell windows to shutdown and re-start, the PC may hang(in the bios or elseware).
At this point I have modified the boot files to just boot DOS. Anyone have a good way to tell the PC to forget it's running windows 95 and restart from the HD without going through the problem areas of win95 shutdown and bios restart? I'm going to re-image them at this point, so I really don't care about windows 95 at this point so who cares if it is shutdown correctly? I'm doing a lot of machines so it needs to be 100% effective....
I know it can be done...
Thanks
jd
Had posted in the os forum I placed it here as it seemed more like the right place:
I need to do this in a batch file. I know and have used MANY of the utilities out there. But here's the problem, Most of those utilities tell windows 95 to shutdown. And on some machines, Win95 refuses to shutdown all the way. On other machines, when you tell windows to shutdown and re-start, the PC may hang(in the bios or elseware).
At this point I have modified the boot files to just boot DOS. Anyone have a good way to tell the PC to forget it's running windows 95 and restart from the HD without going through the problem areas of win95 shutdown and bios restart? I'm going to re-image them at this point, so I really don't care about windows 95 at this point so who cares if it is shutdown correctly? I'm doing a lot of machines so it needs to be 100% effective....
I know it can be done...
Thanks
jd
