Now it is time to enjoy FreeDOS! To get help on various DOS commands, type "Help" at the command prompt and navigate through the page to get information on certain commands. "Fasthelp command" can also be used to get information specific to "command".

There are some updates to version 1.0 that can really make a difference on your system. See http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/fdupdate/ for details. Updating the kernel and certain drivers can give you a much more stable environment. You can use fdpkg to help install files packaged for FreeDOS. You may also need to customize your fdconfig.sys (or config.sys) and fdauto.bat (or autoexec.bat) for some of these programs. Check the FreeDOS user list archives for some examples of what newer drivers or memory managers might replace older ones if the information is not already available on this wiki.

To install software not specific to FreeDOS, consult the software's manual for instructions on how to install it. Be sure to check out software such as Arachne, DJGPP, Openwatcom, NwDsk and MPXplay?.

There are many graphical desktop environments available for FreeDOS, like OpenGEM?. For modern systems, you can also use ReactOS, an opensource Win32 implementation, on top of FreeDOS instead of a DOS GUI. Note that ReactOS is loaded in the same way from DOS as is Linux: one-way only, and reboot is necessary. GRUB4DOS is used to accomplish this small miracle.

If one wishes to uninstall FreeDOS, it is not as easy as installing it, as with any Operating System. If FreeDOS replaced another Operating System, the only way to get the old one back is to format FreeDOS' partition and reinstall the other OS. If FreeDOS was installed alongside another OS, one should be able to simply delete the directory, fdauto.bat, fdconfig.sys, kernel.sys and make the partition bootable again with the bootloader originally available with the OS. With Windows 95 and 98, one can simply reboot with a DOS boot disk and type SYS C: with SYS from C:\Windows\command (or the command directory in the windows directory on the windows drive). With linux, this usually involved editing lilo.conf or /boot/grub/menu.lst and removing the FreeDOS entry, also running lilo if using lilo.

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