Cannot remark out lines in autoexec.bat!

[GeorgeG]

I had a strong suspicion that a DOs sound card driver was causing the "blue screen of death" that I was getting towards the end of boot up (probably due to a clash with a windows driver). So I remarked out the lines in the autoexec.bat that called the driver files and rebooted, only to find the lines reappeared at boot up!. I removed the whole line and still they reappeared. I cleared every comment relating to the drivers I could find in the registry in case they were being reinstatedbut to no avail. Any other lines in the autoxec.bat can be remarked out succesfully.
I have never seen this phenomenon before. Has anyone any idea what is happening?
I have a 1998 Labway Xwave sound card and am running
Windows98 SR2.

George Gray

 

[ascht]

I've seen this phenomen with my sound blaster platinum (Gigabyte-mainboard)
When ending Windows, an application always looks at the autoexec.bat
and inserts this line, if it's not there.
I little help is, when you rename the program that shold be startet.

e.g in autoexec.bat stands
c:\Programs\drivers\dosdrv.com

so you could rename dosdrv.com into dosdrv.co

Andre

 

[rmccallon2]

Have you tried running MSCONFIG and unchecking the line in the autoexec.bat that causes IE to try and start? That is better than trying to remark out the line yourself. Leave the line in and use MSCONFIG. Good Luck. Sometimes we just don't know what we don't know

 

[rfeenie]

is there anything in c:\windows\dosstart.bat routing to autoexec.bat ?
If in doubt get the Ball Pein Hammer out

 

[libroos]

Hi,

There should be other autoexec.* files there..
try renaming them to autoexec.bat and reboot..

If there are still errors, try REM the lines that causes the error.

Otherwise, rename the autoexec.bat to other filenames and same goes to config.sys.

Perform a cold boot..

Cheers,
libroos7

 

[GeorgeG]

Thanks for all your tips. I have tried using msconfig and it makes no difference. The dosstart.bat file does have the lines loading the DOS sound card driver but deleting them or removing the file makes no difference. It looks like some programme is re=entering the lines on close down.

George

 

[Comtech]

It's called Starter.exe and it's in the c:\windows folder.
It's put there by the Creative setup program for the Creative mixer. You don't need it, and you can still run the creative mixer any time you like.
Delete that file, remove it's reference from msconfig/startup tab (uncheck it), then you can get them out of the autoexec. Cheers,
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