computer help: Windows XP is inconsistent with previous versions.

Kadoo wants a Coker

Windows XP is inconsistent with previous versions.

I just downloaded Borland’s excellent C++ compiler, and it can only compile files in its own core directory. There ought to be a way to compile in any directory - in previous versions of windows, you simply edited AUTOEXEC.BAT - but now that file doesn’t exist, and I have no idea what to do.

Hopefully, this loads better than the other attempt I made to ask for help.

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qwertyasdf 2 #
East Lansing, MI, US | 2 years, 10 months ago (6 minutes after post)

Of course it does. The file is hidden on your master hard drive (Usually C:) Without autoexec.bat, your computer wouldn’t boot.

Go to “my computer”->C: (or D: or whatever)
In the menu, Tools->Folder Options
In the popup, View Tab->SHOW HIDDEN FILES option.

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Kadoo wants a Coker 1 #
Los Angeles, CA, US | 2 years, 10 months ago (14 minutes after post)

I don’t believe that’s the case, frattar - my computer is already set to show hidden files, and it is not there. In any case, you seem to be under a misapprehension about what exactly AUTOEXEC.BAT is. It is a file that handles the MS-DOS shell, which records the locations of specific functions which you can activate in that shell and what command to use to activate them without going to the specific directory where they are stored. It has nothing to do with booting, or Windows XP itself.

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Kadoo wants a Coker 1 #
Los Angeles, CA, US | 2 years, 10 months ago (15 minutes after post)

Http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/autoexec.

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qwertyasdf 2 #
East Lansing, MI, US | 2 years, 10 months ago (17 minutes after post)

sorry, i was thinking about boot.ini

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qwertyasdf 2 #
East Lansing, MI, US | 2 years, 10 months ago (20 minutes after post)

edit the windows command line if you feel really gutsy.

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Kadoo wants a Coker 1 #
Los Angeles, CA, US | 2 years, 10 months ago (23 minutes after post)

I unequivocally do NOT feel gutsy about editing windows in any way. Linux, I’d have tried that myself already, but windows - uh-uh.

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qwertyasdf 2 #
East Lansing, MI, US | 2 years, 10 months ago (25 minutes after post)

control panel -> system -> advanced tab -> environmental variables

possibly under “path”
I don’t know the borland compiler that well

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Kadoo wants a Coker 1 #
Los Angeles, CA, US | 2 years, 10 months ago (28 minutes after post)

Again, that deals with Windows, not with the MS-DOS shell.

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An Unknown Location | 2 years, 10 months ago (3 days, 18 hours after post)

Hi this is not answer to your question ,sorry, just a question for you. Why does my xp all of a sudden turn off . Sometimes it does this almost everytime I turn it on and sometimes it does nto do it for a month. I have ran virus scan repair scans reg scan computeer repair etc…it always shows nothing is wrong.I have restored xp and reinstalled updates.What else can I do? Also it is fast when not on the internet but get on internet and it is like molasses in the winter.I have oveer 3/4 hard drive so it is not too full for I have 24gb on my pir shape in my computer. I scan disk and defraag oncce a week and do all the maintence. Any suggestions?

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An Unknown Location | 2 years, 10 months ago (4 days, 4 hours after post)

what is your question?

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