>I have an old 486 running Win95. For several years we
>could use the Shutdown command to reboot to a dos prompt.
>It doesn't work anymore: you simply return to windows.

I heard that the DOS booting in Win95 has errors. There
was some kind of patches around under the name 95BOOT.ZIP
or W95BOOT.ZIP. I have never tried it though.

My 486 got similar problem, and even worse. SO I never re-boot
my PC to previous version of DOS.