Win98 doesn't need an Autoexec.bat file, right?

raz · Post by **raz** » Mon May 06, 2002 4:00 pm

Installed Diskeeper 7 and it added a line like "path = %something%" or something like that. After I uninstalled Diskeeper and the line was left in there (that's the only line by the way). So I deleted the line, um, actually I was daydreaming and deleted the whole file. But the machine seems to be working fine.

Oh, does anyone have a preferred defragmenter program?

Hipnotic_Tranz · Post by **Hipnotic_Tranz** » Mon May 06, 2002 5:26 pm

Nah, you shouldn't need it. It's only used to load certain programs to memory during bootup and if the only thing it was loading was a program you don't even have anymore, then you should be fine without it.

As for defragging, I just use the Windows one

If ya don't know where it is, just right-click on the drive you want to defrag, go down to "properties" then click on the "tools" tab...

Executioner · Post by **Executioner** » Mon May 06, 2002 5:43 pm

The actual purpose is to provide a "path" to the location of the program in DOS or Windows. When I was using Diskeeper, it had the same line in the autoexec.bat file; however, it was not properly added to the path statement because it exceeded the 160 bits allowed by DOS. I don't remember the exact verbage of the error message, but I deleted with no problems amd Diskeeper.

dadx2mj · Post by **dadx2mj** » Mon May 06, 2002 5:58 pm

How come you guys are getting rid of Diskeeper? I am using it in XP Pro and it works great. Much better and faster than the native defragger or Nortons Speed Disk.

Executioner · Post by **Executioner** » Wed May 08, 2002 8:31 pm

The reason it's faster than Nortons because it does not move any files. It only de-fragments files.