XP does NOT have real mode. Period. Command Prompt is not Real Mode.
Period.

Unfortunately, there is no way to
turn off ME and occasionally get into a full DOS mode.

At the risk of repeating myself there are at least three hacks that allow
you to *******ise the operating system in the way you want. Use Google.

I assume one of the three "variations" you mention, is using
Partition Magic's Boot Manager -

No. You appear to have problems using Google. If that's too difficult
then use Google Groups, Advanced Search and look in the Win Me newsgroups.
--
Mike Maltby



ASTROJAZ wrote:

Thanks for confirming my suspicions about ME. However, if you grant
that Microsoft did NOT screw up, and simply, finally, removed Real
Mode from Win ME, then how do you explain that they put it right
back in, with Win-XP? This newer O/S that followed ME, does have a
start up option to go to Command Prompt, which ME no longer did.
Perhaps it isn't DOS-6, but DOS-8, and maybe it is even no longer
Real Mode - don't know. But I wouldn't even mind booting into ME's

I assume one of the three "variations" you mention, is using
Partition Magic's Boot Manager - which as I said, does not solve the
problem, since it simply starts up ME and leaves it upto that O/S to
multiboot, which it can't. Further, it may be that other so-called
boot managers you mention, do the same thing as PM - don't know. I
did the Google thing several times, and it wasn't "my firiend" as you
suggest, since I spent hours on searching for the "hack" you mention,
with no more luck than the Knowledge Base here. Perhaps you can point
me to a specific site, or at least what search string you used to
find the hacks you mentioned, to get ME to boot DOS.