Rolling Your Own XP DOS

InformationWeek's Fred Langa runs down the steps to enabling a robust DOS prompt within the Win XP Recovery Console. By design, the Recovery Console is a bare-bones boot that lets you perform minor system repairs and keeps the uninitiated from getting into trouble. But by first enabling the SET command and then adding a few SET statements, you can to turn on wildcard support in commands, read/write access to the entire hard drive and removable drives, and more.
As always, back up your system before performing any tweaks, and then check out Fred's hot-rodding tips at: Langa Letter: The OS Inside The OS.

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