For many, Windows Me is the pinnacle of Microsoft's attempt to do away with MS-DOS, crippling it's core functionality beyond recognition.

But thanks to some ingenious people, there's ways to fully restore MS-DOS and DOS mode in Windows Me.
You can go the hard way by patching the files yourselfs, or simply install a community-developped Update, to bring MS-DOS back to life.

00:00 Intro
01:05 Windows Neptune - The "Me" that never was!
01:40 Into Windows Me
03:11 The crippled DOS in Windows Me
04:03 Restoring MS-DOS 8 back to glory
08:07 The many versions of IO.SYS and COMMAND.COM
09:00 Community Update to restore MS-DOS Mode in Windows Me
11:50 Conclusion
12:25 Next on TPC: Into the OS/2 DOS Virtual Machine


Links:

iMic's original DOS Mode Update to Windows Me:
https://app.box.com/s/jfiy8p0m2p2vbvh4zzolznh3lp2yanfe
https://msfn.org/board/topic/184833-full-featured-real-mode-dos-in-windows-millennium/
https://forums.overclockers.com.au/threads/showing-windows-me-some-love.1311910/page-2#post-19360466


TPC's evolved DOS Mode Update to Windows Me:
https://github.com/gpdm/TPC-WinMe-DOSMODE/tree/main


The inofficial MS-DOS 7 distro:
http://web.archive.org/web/20150202002937/http://ms-dos7.hit.bg/

The inofficial MS-DOS 7 distro on WinWorldPC.com:
https://winworldpc.com/product/ms-dos/7x

Various Wikipedia articles:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Me
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Neptune

The Windows Good and Bad cycle:
https://metanophilia.wordpress.com/2015/08/09/windows-10-the-good-bad-cycle-and-the-age-of-mobile-devices/


Tech Docs:
Multiboot.ru's Documentation on MS-DOS (including MS-DOS 8 ISO): http://www.multiboot.ru/msdos8.htm
MS-DOS 8 Analysis: https://web.archive.org/web/20050219151958/https://www.matem.unam.mx/~micho/ripl6.html
IOSys Decompressor: https://web.archive.org/web/20200225224314/https://rloewelectronics.com/free.htm
DOS Mode Patch Tool: https://www.oocities.org/mfd4life_2000/
IO8EMMOK driver: https://github.com/pufengdu/IO8EMMOK
Windows INF Files: https://www.mdgx.com/INF_web/

Windows System File Protection:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_File_Protection
http://smallvoid.com/article/winme-system-file-protection.html



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