rem and Net Start

[grh]

I'm running win 98 SE. In the last week, on every reboot, before the command line settles on c:. I get a string with starts off with rem, then has something before /windows98/, and ends with Net Start.

What the Heck is going on?

I'm using MS client login, with the NT features Not checked. I get the same with Family logon. I've even deleted and reinstalled these services. The only thing new, that I can think of, is the addition of a tcp or PPPoE protocol.

I had been seeing the exact same string (at the top, twice) in the System Config utility, under autoexec.bat. I've since deleted them and now all that remains are a pencil icon for each.

I suspect that has to do with (or is mucking with) my attempts to network my machines on a DSL service.

Please, someone, throw me a bone here.

[Nuclear Krusader]

When the "rem" instruction is put before a line it prevents that line from executing the command or instruction given there.

Could you post the line complete?

[grh]

Found it:

rem Rem Tsoot: c:\windows\net start

rem Rem Tsoot: c:\windows\net start

c:\

-- Tsoot may not be exactly correct --

[Nuclear Krusader]

OK. Dunno what Tsoot does but whatever it does it's not doing it anymore because it has a rem instruction behind it.

[grh]

So my PC isn't being effected? How do I remOVE the renagade string?

[Nuclear Krusader]

What is exactly the problem? Are you lacking some functions in Windows because of this?

You don't have need to remove the line as it is already unaffecting the system. But we need to know if you are having problems so we can find out if those problems are because of that line in your boot files.

[EzyStvy]

Click on Start->Run and type: SYSEDIT

Look in your Autoexec.bat file for the lines. Delete away.

Or, you can add this line as the First line in the autoexec.bat file:

@echo off

And add this as the last line:

CLS

These two line would "hide" what you've been seeing at bootup.