Dobesov

thanks for the informative responces... i will continue trying. i would love to in the end have something that allowed me to get a dos prompt and use the start command to create new instances of command.com. i dont think at that point anything that understands alt-tab would be loaded so i am not sure where i would go from there. but there must be some way to invoke such action from w32 console applications.

so i have been researching and experimenting for a while to try and find a way of running the win98se kernel and VMM stripped of useless things like the GUI. now i dont mean just replacing the shell to command.com. i want a win32 multitsking DOS OS to play my old games on. one without any of the GUI components loaded to memory. one without dos "boxes". one with fully 32 bit win32 driver, DPMI, and protected mode addressing support and no graphical interface. the problem is that documentaion on the boot process has holes. you can sever GDI and USER from startup or control the loading of drivers or even figure out what is responcible for it or when exactly it happens. is it called from win.com or kernel32 or the vmm32? does anyone know any more about this process?