Windows 7 Still has Autoexec.bat
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Windows 7 Still has Autoexec.bat
Some of you may recall that I discovered this in Vista. And, well...here it is again.
sysedit from the run dialog box...
Again I ask, WHY!?
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Re: Windows 7 Sill has Autoexec.bat
It is one of a very short list of DOS-derived files that are absolutely central to Windows.
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Re: Windows 7 Sill has Autoexec.bat
So you're saying without it Windows wouldn't work?
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Re: Windows 7 Sill has Autoexec.bat
Ztrl wrote:So you're saying without it Windows wouldn't work?
Y I think that's the gist of it, I mean DOS > WinDOS > Windows ... These core files are so deeply embedded in the codebase, they would likely be quite nightmarish to expurgate. Well, I guess they could get rid of it -- but what for ?
autoexec.bat is btw also used to ensure compatibility with legacy applications.
Anyway, you can still use autoexec.bat to execute scripts at boot AFAIK -- although iirc the last time I've done this myself was during the Longhorn pre-beta period to speed up Longhorn 4074 on my rig, and Longhorn 4xxx was founded on the Windows Server 2003 codebase...
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Re: Windows 7 Sill has Autoexec.bat
My biggest complaint is how old it is. And all of the old vulnerabilities it had...
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Re: Windows 7 Sill has Autoexec.bat
Ztrl wrote:My biggest complaint is how old it is. And all of the old vulnerabilities it had...
DOS is no longer a part of either Vista or W7, and any old command protocols that are included in any autoexec.bat will be interpreted by PowerShell instead -- just as the old boot.ini files are used during boot by the Vista/W7 BCD store instead of by the DOS/9x/Me/NT/XP boot environment.
Old code, new language
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Re: Windows 7 Still has Autoexec.bat
At least they seem to be moving in the right direction.
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