"Bad command or file name" on startup, help?

[BCompDude]

Basically I have Windows 98 and when I boot up the computer it gives me the message "Bad command or file name. . .Press any key to continue". I can get into safe mode but don't know how or what to fix lol. I would greatly appreciate any insite into this problem. Does it have anything to do with the config.sys or boot.txt? I'm sure its something simple, hope anyway.

 

[Paperlantern]

did u delete anything? all i know is that that comes up when a bad dos command refers to a file that isnt there, a line in either of those files may be the culprit

 

[DnetMHZ]

post your autoexec.bat file

 

[stuman19]

Originally posted by: BCompDude
Basically I have Windows 98 and when I boot up the computer it gives me the message "Bad command or file name. . .Press any key to continue". I can get into safe mode but don't know how or what to fix lol. I would greatly appreciate any insite into this problem. Does it have anything to do with the config.sys or boot.txt? I'm sure its something simple, hope anyway.

Chances are you deleted something and it was part of a program and that program needs that file upon startup. You can always try to get rid of it by uninstalling that target program and re-installing or try using "ms-config" and getting rid of things that startup one by one in the autoexec.bat file.