[adeere50]

how do i set up a laptop to start up in dos mode. it has windows 2000 professional installed on it.

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Hi adeere50, welcome to G2G.

That ability doesn't exist in W2K, XP or Vista like it did in W95/W98/WME.

What you can do is create a DOS bootable diskette or CD and boot it when needed.

Perhaps there are other solutions. Why do you need to do this?

[Ztruker]

Hi adeere50, welcome to G2G.

That ability doesn't exist in W2K, XP or Vista like it did in W95/W98/WME.

What you can do is create a DOS bootable diskette or CD and boot it when needed.

Perhaps there are other solutions. Why do you need to do this?

[hoosiers70]

we do programming on phone systems and some of the older software has to be ran through dos.

[Ztruker]

AH, okay. A couple possibilities then.

• DosBox
• VmWare

I've run 3 different versions of DOS under VMWare on my XP Pro system, along with OS/2 and Linux. Never personally used DosBox but have heard it's very good and may be enough for the job you have.

[hoosiers70]

thanks for the info