A handful of things that can be wrong in 2 files vs thousands of kinds of malware, dozens of config files in windows and dozens of spots in the registry plus many, many more files in Windows that could be corrupted.
Save your good config.sys and autoexec.bat on a floppy, make it read-only and you can reinstall your OS in minutes.
Jokes aside, I still have my ms dos and windows 3.11 disks... simpler times 🥰
gitty7456 10 points · Jan 2022
Config.sys and autoexec.bat beg to disagree on “simpler”.
otter_sausage 4 points · Jan 2022
Or manually assigning IRQs to hardware
gitty7456 4 points · Jan 2022
Expanded vs Extended memory were A LOT of fun…
ang-p 1 points · Jan 2022
QEMM to the rescue...
gitty7456 1 points · Jan 2022
Never used it. I was an EMM386 fanboy.
Number127 1 points · Jan 2022
Another veteran of the Vega Campaign?
gitty7456 2 points · Jan 2022
Sure I was Sir! So many weeks spent on the TCS Tiger's Claw...
Bahlore 1 points · Jan 2022
dos = high, umb
Amirium -4 points · Jan 2022
Still less issues than win10 😝
spelunkersbutt 2 points · Jan 2022
Nope
[deleted] 1 points · Jan 2022
A handful of things that can be wrong in 2 files vs thousands of kinds of malware, dozens of config files in windows and dozens of spots in the registry plus many, many more files in Windows that could be corrupted.
Save your good config.sys and autoexec.bat on a floppy, make it read-only and you can reinstall your OS in minutes.
SavageCDN 2 points · Jan 2022
Took this a few years ago during a cleanup of old tech at work
Amirium 2 points · Jan 2022
Nice! Lollll 👌👏👏👏
bluemitersaw 2 points · Jan 2022
That's what gets me with this. DOS and Win 3.11 in case in an emergency? Ok
Windows 95???? No such emergency exists.
[deleted] 1 points · Jan 2022
Well, at this point DOS won't help because it won't recognize your USB keyboard.
quelar 2 points · Jan 2022
There's a reason I keep a serial plug keyboard in a drawer.