China DOS Union

A trick to let the system use a certain DOS application
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After entering the Windows 98 era, TSR programs under DOS have become increasingly rare, but sometimes for certain special reasons we still continue to use them. This creates a problem: when we use a TSR under DOS in the system, the system will always say on the "Performance" tab in the "System Properties" settings box (just right-click My Computer and select "Properties" that this program has reduced system performance! In fact, this statement by Windows 98 has no basis; the vast majority of TSR programs under DOS do not affect Windows 98 system performance! So is there any way to make the system stop displaying the above information? Of course there is. Open the IOS.INI file in the Windows 98 installation directory, then find the section, and add the DOS TSR program we need to use to that section (just enter the full filename; there is no need to enter the path). After that, when we load that program into memory again, the system will no longer prompt that it affects system performance, thus satisfying the user's needs (you can see from the IOS.INI file that the system itself loads quite a few DOS TSR programs in Windows 98, yet it does not allow users to use them—truly "officials may set fires, but common people may not light lamps".

I really don't know whether this counts as a DOS usage tip or a Win9x usage tip. Probably because Win9x is also a DOS program!

Microsoft often does this sort of thing—"officials may set fires, but common people may not light lamps."

Thanks for your hard work, OP