Using SETVER

You use the SETVER program to report a particular MS-DOS version number to enable device drivers or programs written for an older version of MS-DOS (or Windows command line) to run with Windows. Use SETVER if a device driver or program reports an “incorrect DOS version” when you attempt to load it.

SETVER is used in two ways:

  • When run from the command line, SETVER can display the version information stored in the program and let you add or remove programs from its version-table entries.

  • When added to Config.sys (Windows 9x/Me) or Config.nt (Windows NT/2000/XP), SETVER's version-table entries are loaded into memory. Any program listed in SETVER's version table that queries for the version of MS-DOS in use will receive that information ...

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