C:\>set Prompt And C> Set Winpmt - What???

I have been ******** around with a bunch of tweakers and boosters and etc. lately - something I did I guess has made these two things stat to come up on my screen when it starts up - you know - pre-window opening where all the C:> are all on the screen in a row - aobut 6? Anyway - anybody out there know what the mean and what I should do? please help. thanks. M

 

Hi MCHAAK



Im not sure what yer you'r talking about --why did you post in the application section ?

So someone can help --post more info
what os and is it up to dare ?
PS what tweekers and bosters ?
Regards

Lonny

 

Those are coming from your autoexec.bat file, located at c:\ . Your computer is merely ECHOing the commands that are processed from it. You can stop it by editing the file using Notepad. Put the following line first;

@echo off

Then delete any blank lines. After that put the cursor right at the end of the last line, then press and hold the DEL key, this will eliminate any 'invisible' lines or blank lines at the end, then save it.
FYI: The prompt command just tell the dos how to display the command cursor. Prompt=$p$g tells it to display the current drive and path and the arrow.

 

markp62

Thanks p62! Try this one. When I tried to open the exec.bat file I got this message - This program can not be run due to restrictions in effect on this computer - contact the system administrator! What is that all about? I have ben running into that a lot of late. Thanks. m

 

It seems with the tweakers and boosters you have been using, you have put restrictions on yourself. It appears that you have restricted dos programs from being run.
Can you right click on autoexec.bat and select Edit?

 

Hey 62! YES. I can right click on exec.bat - now what do I do? Thanks. M

 

Select Edit on the little menu, and follow my suggestions in my first post on this thread.

 

ONE MORE TIME 62

Hey again 62 - thanks for the advice - I did what you told me in that post already - but I still get that notice about restrictions? About deleting the "last line" is that the blank line or did you mean the last line of writing - which is - set LglDrv=? Thanks again! m

 

I would leave that line. Not sure why you have a logical drive letter set in the autoxec.bat. I just meant to put the cursor at the end of the last line as though you were to type onto it. Then press and hold the DEL key. This will delete any lines below that may exist but are invisible, and will not delete anything to the left of the cursor. They give you the C:\> 's.
Another way to edit Autoexec.Bat. Go to Start\Run, type in "Notepad C:\Autoexec.Bat" without quotes , then press enter.
These restrictions, did you impose these on yourself? You have never stated the operating system. To get any help on this, this would have to be known.
But in the meantime, try this.
Start\Run, type in Regedit, press enter. Do you get a restriction?

 

NEWBIE

HI 62. I have a Windows 98E. I have been trying several tweakers and optimsers and such and probably di it to myself - not knowing what the heck I was doing. Dumb. They should never give me that power! Anyway - thanks for helping. I ran the Notepad thing and it just had two things in it - SET PROMPT= AND SET WINPMT= - the things that show up on the screen when it is starting. I also ran the Regedit - no restriction thing came up. I hope that helps - thanks again 62. By the way - I am a Mark too. Kingsr1 M

 

You are going to have to find out which one of the tweakers you used to lock yourself from running dos based programs. At least you didn't lock yourself out of the registry, try not to, anyway.
At any rate, you can delete those lines in the autoexec.bat file and leave it empty. You have posted that there is nothing to the right of the = sign, therefore those lines are doing nothing for you. Or, you can edit the lines so that they are just read and nothing is done with them. Put 'rem' at the beginning of each line. ie;
rem SET PROMPT=
This way they will still be there, but will have no affect. If you find you need them back, it is a simple matter of removing the rem.