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Rewired
9 Dec 2004, 9:51pm
Howdy, I'm attempting to clean my system some and below is my win.ini file. I see below the brackeys "[programs]" there are two it seems there are two EXE files listed. Are these running are startup? How did they get there and is it safe to remove them? Thanks for your time:)

-Michael-


; for 16-bit app support
[fonts]
[extensions]
[mci extensions]
[files]
[Mail]
MAPI=1
CMC=1
CMCDLLNAME=mapi.dll
CMCDLLNAME32=mapi32.dll
MAPIX=1
MAPIXVER=1.0.0.1
OLEMessaging=1
[MCI Extensions.BAK]
aif=MPEGVideo
aifc=MPEGVideo
aiff=MPEGVideo
asf=MPEGVideo2
asx=MPEGVideo2
au=MPEGVideo
m1v=MPEGVideo
m3u=MPEGVideo2
mp2=MPEGVideo
mp2v=MPEGVideo
mp3=MPEGVideo2
mpa=MPEGVideo
mpe=MPEGVideo
mpeg=MPEGVideo
mpg=MPEGVideo
mpv2=MPEGVideo
snd=MPEGVideo
wax=MPEGVideo2
wm=MPEGVideo2
wma=MPEGVideo2
wmv=MPEGVideo2
wmx=MPEGVideo2
wvx=MPEGVideo2
wpl=MPEGVideo
[programs]
start.exe=E:\michael.htm
QB.EXE=C:\Program Files\MS QuickBasic\Qbasic\Qbasic.exe
[MSUCE]
Advanced=0
CodePage=Unicode
Font=Arial
[/COLOR]
Black Hawk
9 Dec 2004, 11:12pm
Back it up, delete it and see if you have any problems.
Rewired
9 Dec 2004, 11:26pm
Howdy. Thx. I was hoping maybe for an explanation of the win.ini file as a whole.
This is unrelated, but I have Eastern Time selected in the Options but the time stamps for posts are a full 70minutes fast. What's going on here?
profdlp
9 Dec 2004, 11:58pm
...I have Eastern Time selected in the Options but the time stamps for posts are a full 70minutes fast. What's going on here?
See this. (http://www.short-media.com/forum/showthread.php?t=22734)
I am on EST as well. I just lied to the usercp and said CST. Still off by 9-10 minutes.

Short-Media has a new server coming any day now. Things should be straightened out by then. :)
Black Hawk
10 Dec 2004, 2:02am
Howdy. Thx. I was hoping maybe for an explanation of the win.ini file as a whole.
This is unrelated, but I have Eastern Time selected in the Options but the time stamps for posts are a full 70minutes fast. What's going on here?
The Microsoft Windows initialization file located in windows directory. The win.ini file is used to load various settings each time Windows boots, for example the communications drivers, wallpaper, screen saver, languages, fonts, etc... are loaded each time the win.ini is initialized. If this file becomes corrupt or bad Windows will either not load, or have several errors as it loads.
Dexter
10 Dec 2004, 2:26am
start.exe=E:\michael.htm
QB.EXE=C:\Program Files\MS QuickBasic\Qbasic\Qbasic.exe

These are not running at startup. These are basically entries which allow DOS-style shortcut launching of a file anywhere on the system. At the DOS level, if you type "QB.exe", no matter what directory you are currently in, it will launch Qbasic.exe, because the path to the exe file has been defined in the ini file.

If you type "start.exe", it has been defined to launch e:\michael.htm. That will launch your default web browser and open that HTML page from your E drive.

Dexter...
Rewired
10 Dec 2004, 2:38am
When I attempt to run "QB.EXE" without a path I get an error saying windows can not find "QB.EXE".

E:\michael.htm does not exist. E:\ is my CD-Rom drive.