MS-DOS 7 COMMAND.COM, AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS. All other files can be copied thereafter. (In Windows 95/98 they are found in either the root folder or in the C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND folder) MS-DOS 7 MS-DOS 7 is a computer operating system which has never been released separately by its creator Microsoft, but which corresponds to the basic (real mode) of the Windows 9x family of operating systems. Windows 95 reports to be MS-DOS 7.0, while Windows 98 and Windows 98SE report as 7.1. A major difference between earlier versions of MS-DOS is the usage of the MSDOS.SYS file. In version 7 this is not a
Windows Vista startup process Windows Vista startup process The startup process of Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008 and their successors differs from the startup process part of previous versions of Windows. In this article, unless otherwise specified, what is said about "Windows Vista" also applies to all later NT operating systems. For Windows Vista, the boot sector loads the Windows Boot Manager (a file named BOOTMGR on either the system or the boot partition), accesses the Boot Configuration Data store and uses the information to load the operating system. Then, the BCD invokes the boot loader and in turn proceeds to initiate the Windows