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From: adnan@screech.rice.edu (Sarmad Adnan)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Running MS Windows from windows
Message-ID: <1990Sep12.054109.164@rice.edu>
Date: 12 Sep 90 05:41:09 GMT
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>> I'd like to run a real-mode version of Windows 3.0 within enhanced-mode
>> Windows.  In other words, while running Windows 3.0 in enhanced mode,
>> I'd like to run Windows (real-mode) as an application.  This works
>> normally.  However, I'd like the real-mode version to run with
>> different configuration files.  Any clues? Thanx in advance.


>     When Windows fires up, it appears to read a number of *.ini files for its
>initialization.  Briefly, the *.ini files appear to specify the following:

>control.ini    - desktop colors and patterns
>progman.ini   - definition of program manager groups etc.
>system.ini    - video drivers etc.
>win.ini       - programs to be loaded on startup, fonts, printer etc.
>winfile.ini   - startup configuration of File Manager

I have three different setups for windows on my computer. 
The trick is to keep each set of setup files in a different directory 
and have a batch file modify the path envoirnment variable so as to bring 
the required path name for the setup file directory ahead of the windows
directory pathname. A dir listing of one of the setup directory contains 
the following files---mostly ini & grp files but a couple of others too.

ACCESSOR GRP     10468 09-08-90   1:56p
COMMAND  PIF       545 06-13-90   3:43p
CONTROL  INI      1645 07-18-90  10:26p
GAMES    GRP     10213 09-08-90  11:51a
MAIN     GRP      5767 09-08-90  11:51a
NONWINDO GRP      2960 09-08-90  11:51a
PROGMAN  INI       231 09-08-90  10:12p
SMARTDRV SYS      6866 05-01-90   3:00a
SYSTEM   INI      1115 08-01-90  11:38p
WIN      COM     19358 07-16-90   8:18p
WIN      INI      2992 09-08-90  10:13p
WIN      SYD      3041 07-10-90   3:24p
WINFILE  INI       220 09-08-90  10:13p
WINHELP  BMK        63 07-11-90   2:21a
WINVER   EXE      8704 05-01-90   3:00a

I had initially setup using the instructions for the network installation
but found out that just copying and modifying these files also works fine.

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                  Sarmad Adnan (adnan@rice.edu)
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