How to Remove QBasic and EDIT from MS-DOS 5.0 and Later (66047)



The information in this article applies to:
    Microsoft MS-DOS operating system 5.0
    Microsoft MS-DOS operating system 5.0a
    Microsoft MS-DOS operating system 6.0
    Microsoft MS-DOS operating system 6.2
    Microsoft MS-DOS operating system 6.21
    Microsoft MS-DOS operating system 6.22

This article was previously published under Q66047

SUMMARY

If you do not plan to use either QBasic or EDIT, which are provided with MS-DOS versions 5.0 and later, you can delete the following files:

QBASIC.EXE
QBASIC.HLP
EDIT.COM
EDIT.HLP
All files with a .BAS extension

If you plan to use EDIT but not QBasic, delete all the files with a .BAS extension and QBASIC.HLP. Do not delete QBASIC.EXE; EDIT.COM actually invokes QBASIC.EXE and cannot run without it.

For more information on this subject, query on the following words:

qbasic and edit.com


Modification Type: Major Last Reviewed: 5/10/2003
Keywords: KB66047