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THE MICROSOFT DIAGNOSTIC UTILITY (MSD)

New with DOS 6 is an MSD (Microsoft Diagnostics Utility)
program that will give you plenty of technical
information about your computer. To run this program, at
the DOS prompt type:

msd

Press a highlighted letter for information. You will see
a lot of interesting information, including what kind of
computer you are using (80286, 80386, 80486, etc.), what
kind of monitor and video card, how much memory, and
more. You can save this information on disk. Here is
how to do it. Place a formatted diskette in drive A, and
at the DOS prompt type:

msd /p a:computer.inf

The above command will save the diagnostic information
about your computer in a text file called COMPUTER.INF on

the A drive. Label this disk and put it in a safe place.
It will even contain a copy of your current AUTOEXEC.BAT
and CONFIG.SYS files. To view the COMPUTER.INF file, use
the DOS EDIT program by typing at the DOS prompt:

edit a:computer.inf

If you want to print the file, press:


f
p


Store the printed output in a safe place where you can
find it.






This section is finished. It is an excerpt from LEARNING DOS FOR
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  3 Responses to “Category : Tutorials + Patches
Archive   : DOS6TIPS.ZIP
Filename : MSD.DOC
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  1. Daniel says:
    January 27, 2013 at 3:59 pm

    Very nice! Thank you for this wonderful archive. I wonder why I found it only now. Long live the BBS file archives!

  2. Joshie says:
    March 18, 2014 at 4:57 pm

    This is so awesome! 😀 I’d be cool if you could download an entire archive of this at once, though.

  3. DiskingRound says:
    January 14, 2015 at 10:57 pm

    But one thing that puzzles me is the “mtswslnkmcjklsdlsbdmMICROSOFT” string. There is an article about it here. It is definitely worth a read: http://www.os2museum.com/wp/mtswslnk/