Apple 640 Ejecting disks in the PC environment, Setting up the PC environment, Fading the screen

3Turn off the Shut Down Warning option in the General Controls panel.

If the Shut Down Warning is turned on when you switch from the Mac OS to the PC environment, you will not be able to switch back again for a few minutes.

Fading the screen

To have the screen fade briefly before you switch environments, click to place an X in the Fade Screens checkbox in the PC Setup control panel. This prevents the display from flashing when you switch environments.

Ejecting disks in the PC environment

Here are a few commands you will find useful while you work in the PC environment.

mTo eject a disk from the Macintosh disk drive while you’re in the PC environment, press x-E.

mTo eject a CD-ROM disc in the PC environment, press x-Y.

For more details, see the section “Working in the PC Environment,” later in this chapter.

Setting up the PC environment

In order to take advantage of certain memory management utilities, you may need to modify your DOS CONFIG.SYS file. For information about how to edit DOS files, see your DOS manual. For information about the kinds of changes you might need to make, read the information in this section.

Note: Your DOS system software also includes alternative versions of the CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT files that allow you to select from a variety of memory management options each time you start DOS. For information on how to install these files, see “Replacing the CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT Files” in the section “Reinstalling the DOS-Compatibility Software” in Chapter 8.

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