How to boot to a command prompt?

[Rick]

Is there a how to article on How to Boot to a Command
Prompt in windows XP someone can point me to? I can't
find any such article in the KB. Thanks in advance.

 

[Chris Lanier]

Hi, you can reboot into Safe Mode w/ Command Prompt. While booting press F8
and select Safe Mode Command Prompt. Their is no true DOS command prompt in
Windows XP.

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Greetings --

There is no way to reboot a WinXP PC into Real Mode DOS unless
you've set up a dual-boot system. The WinNT family of 32-bit
graphical operating systems, of which WinXP is the latest generation,
has never used or included MS-DOS. The closest they have is the
Command Prompt window.

WinXP, like its predecessors WinNT & Win2K, is a pure 32-bit GUI
OS, and does not include or "ride upon" any version of DOS, as did
Win3.x & Win9x/Me. WinXP does include a command-line emulator for
those times when GUI applets are unnecessary/redundant, but it cannot
be started in "DOS mode."


Bruce Chambers

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