Program Load sequence file XP Pro

[rcrainman]

Outside of start menu and boot.ini. Does anyone know where I can find the load sequence file. Looking for something like an Auto.exe file used by Dos to load various programs. Anyone???

[Mada_Milty]

You mean autoexec.bat, perhaps? That should be in the root of C:

[rcrainman]

Yea! Thats the kind of file I'm looking for but the autoexe.bat file itself doesn't exist in XP Pro..or at least a search of the system doesn't id that file. Any other suggestions?

[Mada_Milty]

Originally Posted by rcrainman

Yea! Thats the kind of file I'm looking for but the autoexe.bat file itself doesn't exist in XP Pro..or at least a search of the system doesn't id that file. Any other suggestions?

WHAT?!?!? : Are you looking for hidden files, too? Your system NEEDS this file to boot! It DOES exist in XP pro; I have it on my machine.

[rcrainman]

Yes, the search includes hidden files. On my C drive I have several autoexec's a bat and a NT. I've tried to open both but MS indicates that bat file is not a vaild win32 file and the NT file has to have the original program that created it and it won't open. So, that's why I thought that there might be another file that feeds the program load sequence. ???

[Mada_Milty]

Originally Posted by rcrainman

Yes, the search includes hidden files. On my C drive I have several autoexec's a bat and a NT. I've tried to open both but MS indicates that bat file is not a vaild win32 file and the NT file has to have the original program that created it and it won't open. So, that's why I thought that there might be another file that feeds the program load sequence. ???

If you are 'opening' the file, you're actually trying to execute the code within it. You want to EDIT the file to see its contents. Try right clicking the BAT file and selecting EDIT. Before you make any changes, though, make a copy, so that if you make a mistake, you can replace the file with the original.

[rcrainman]

Tried edit. but nothing in the autoexec.bat file. BTW the other autoexec.nt files don't have an edit mode. Any other thoughts??? Thanks!