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SYSTEM.INI
is an initialization (
INI file) used in early versions of
Microsoft Windows (from
1.01 up to
Me) to load
device drivers and the default
Windows shell (
Program Manager or
Windows Explorer), among other system settings. Many of these settings were honored in Windows 9x (
95,
98 and
Me), although the INI files had begun to be phased out in favor of the
Windows Registry. Windows
NT 4.0,
2000,
XP and
Server 2003 still acknowledge some SYSTEM.INI
entries in order to provide backwards compatibility with older 16-bit applications. Windows
Vista and beyond also have SYSTEM.INI
as well. However, when a fresh install of
XP/
Server 2003 is performed, the SYSTEM.INI
file created contains by default only these lines:
; for 16-bit app support
[drivers]
wave=mmdrv.dll
timer=timer.drv
[mci]
[driver32]
[386enh]
woafont=dosapp.FON
EGA80WOA.FON=EGA80WOA.FON
EGA40WOA.FON=EGA40WOA.FON
CGA80WOA.FON=CGA80WOA.FON
CGA40WOA.FON=CGA40WOA.FON
Microsoft bundles two specialized text/
ASCII editors for core
configuration files (such as PROTOCOL.INI
,
WIN.INI
, SYSTEM.INI
,
CONFIG.SYS
, and
AUTOEXEC.BAT
) with its operating systems.
Sysedit is an
MDI
text editor that opens all these files simultaneously, available in all versions of Windows beginning with
Windows 3.0, except
Me
[1] and no longer after Windows 7.
MSConfig is a front end interface application that allows the user to enable and disable drivers, Windows shell and applications separately from being loaded at startup by the aforementioned files and from the Run, RunEx, and RunOnce
Windows Registry keys.
SYSTEM.INI
in Windows 3.x (3.0, 3.10 and Windows for Workgroups 3.11) and Windows 9x (95, 98 and Me):
This article needs additional citations for
verification. (October 2010) |
SYSTEM.INI
is an initialization (
INI file) used in early versions of
Microsoft Windows (from
1.01 up to
Me) to load
device drivers and the default
Windows shell (
Program Manager or
Windows Explorer), among other system settings. Many of these settings were honored in Windows 9x (
95,
98 and
Me), although the INI files had begun to be phased out in favor of the
Windows Registry. Windows
NT 4.0,
2000,
XP and
Server 2003 still acknowledge some SYSTEM.INI
entries in order to provide backwards compatibility with older 16-bit applications. Windows
Vista and beyond also have SYSTEM.INI
as well. However, when a fresh install of
XP/
Server 2003 is performed, the SYSTEM.INI
file created contains by default only these lines:
; for 16-bit app support
[drivers]
wave=mmdrv.dll
timer=timer.drv
[mci]
[driver32]
[386enh]
woafont=dosapp.FON
EGA80WOA.FON=EGA80WOA.FON
EGA40WOA.FON=EGA40WOA.FON
CGA80WOA.FON=CGA80WOA.FON
CGA40WOA.FON=CGA40WOA.FON
Microsoft bundles two specialized text/
ASCII editors for core
configuration files (such as PROTOCOL.INI
,
WIN.INI
, SYSTEM.INI
,
CONFIG.SYS
, and
AUTOEXEC.BAT
) with its operating systems.
Sysedit is an
MDI
text editor that opens all these files simultaneously, available in all versions of Windows beginning with
Windows 3.0, except
Me
[1] and no longer after Windows 7.
MSConfig is a front end interface application that allows the user to enable and disable drivers, Windows shell and applications separately from being loaded at startup by the aforementioned files and from the Run, RunEx, and RunOnce
Windows Registry keys.
SYSTEM.INI
in Windows 3.x (3.0, 3.10 and Windows for Workgroups 3.11) and Windows 9x (95, 98 and Me):