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Windows XP's Recovery Console is a very restricted version of XP that's been stripped to its barest fundamentals--it's got just enough to get the operating system going, with none of the usual bells and whistles. This skeletal version of the operating system is intended to effect repairs and perform low-level maintenance, and for those purposes it's a very good tool.But it's also very limited. By default, it restricts you to working in just a few systems folders, refusing you access to any other part of your hard drive. It prevents you from using "wildcards" (such as "*.exe" to represent all files ending in "exe"). It won't let you copy files to removable media such as floppies. And you're always prompted when overwriting each and any file.
Fred Langa shows how a simple tweak turns XP's low-level Recovery Console into a complete, standalone mini-operating system--in effect, an XP DOS!(continue at source)