Known MS-DOS issues

Below are known Microsoft DOS issues and the resolutions to each of them, if available. Note: These issues related to early versions of MS-DOS. Current versions of the Windows command line do not have these issues.

When using Xcopy to copy the contents of a folder, the source folder's attributes are not applied to the new folder. The reason for this is because xcopy does not have the ability to copy attributes for folders. To fix this issue, ensure that you do not have the folders attribed

MS-DOS 6.2 and above will not accept or recognize more than 64 megs of RAM when typing mem.

When running a Windows 95 MS-DOS prompt in window mode and you press ALT + SPACE and then let go of the Space while continuing to hold down ALT and then press Tab to switch to another window the menu to switch to another application will stay up.

If a screen saver activates while in a Windows 95 MS-DOS window the DOS window will be minimized when the screen saver is deactivated.

Earlier versions of Windows and MS-DOS allows extended characters to be entered into the label of the hard drive or disk drive. If invalid characters are detected in the label when running scandisk it may attempt to correct the label of the drive and damage or destroy all of the drives data.