why was dos running on windows 7?

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anongo

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why was dos running on my pc at setup? it seems to have stopped now, was it just the pc installing or what?
 
Windows hasn't come with "DOS" since ME I think it was, the thing your Windows 7 has got is simply a terminal, a command line that can do most of the stuff the old DOS command line could. As for what you saw, well, it could've been just about any text-based program.
 
hackapelite said:
Windows hasn't come with "DOS" since ME I think it was, the thing your Windows 7 has got is simply a terminal, a command line that can do most of the stuff the old DOS command line could. As for what you saw, well, it could've been just about any text-based program.
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It does exist though in accessories dos prompt. Your right about one thing though. lots of commands are missing for what ever reason. i will never understand that. i could always boot to dos and sync files for example. was a lot of powerful commands in the older ver's. like 'replace' for example. was and is a time and place for it. Raised up on it.
 
tremmor said:
It does exist though in accessories dos prompt. Your right about one thing though. lots of commands are missing for what ever reason. i will never understand that. i could always boot to dos and sync files for example. was a lot of powerful commands in the older ver's. like 'replace' for example. was and is a time and place for it. Raised up on it.
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I think Windows PowerShell can do all of the stuff that the older MS DOS could do
 
i checked at microsoft and the link was removed. Oh well.....its not a biggie no more. Just mentioned i felt very comfortable with it at one time but thanks.
 
tremmor said:
i checked at microsoft and the link was removed. Oh well.....its not a biggie no more. Just mentioned i felt very comfortable with it at one time but thanks.
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It comes with Windows 7 if I'm not mistaken:

Start>All Programs>Accessories>Windows PowerShell

With Vista, it was included in an update a few months back I think
 
It is- Windows is, and always will be until some huge change, an overlay on top of DOS. You can still boot into DOS if you select the option in the Safe Mode menu.
 
It is not DOS, it is CMD. CMD uses a lot of DOS commands, but DOS is considered legacy.

The powershell is a Unix-like set of commands that just wrap around CMD commands. It is their answer to shell scripts versus batch files. In DOS you had a file called command.com which held all the binaries for the command line, but since Windows XP was built on NT tech, there hasn't been DOS in a Microsoft OS since Windows ME.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CMD
 
lucasbytegenius said:
Then tell me why when you type the MEM command in Windows 7 it not only works, but shows the memory in bytes?
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Did you not read the link I posted. Some DOS commands were brought into CMD.exe, DOS does not exist. There is no more command.com file. It hasn't existed since the release of XP.
 
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