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[GP]

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I have installed winXP on my PC .
At boot up I get a prompt of whether to start windows XP home or windows...
with 25 sec countsdwn

I dont want this screen to appear, what do i do to get rid of it this and
let it boot up without this screen?

 

[Guest]

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics (More info?)

Hi,

Click start/run, type msconfig and click ok. Go to the boot.ini tab, click
the button to 'check all boot paths' - it should offer to remove the invalid
one. If it does not, then close the system configuration utility and go to
the control panel. Open up the system applet, click on the advanced tab,
then on startup and recovery settings. Click the edit button to open
boot.ini in notepad, then remove the unwanted line from the [operating
systems] section. Close saving changes. A normal boot.ini with Windows on
C:\ should look like this:

[boot loader]
timeout=3
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP
Professional" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn

Though the switches on the end may be different according to what service
pack is installed (this is SP2 with DEP active).

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone
www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

"gp" <grum@invalid> wrote in message
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>I have installed winXP on my PC .
> At boot up I get a prompt of whether to start windows XP home or
> windows...
> with 25 sec countsdwn
>
> I dont want this screen to appear, what do i do to get rid of it this and
> let it boot up without this screen?
>
>
>

 

[Guest]

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics (More info?)

Just a small point to add to Rick's post. Because you version is XP Home
make certain your boot.ini file makes reference to Microsoft Windows XP Home
and not Windows XP Professional

--

Harry Ohrn MS-MVP [Shell/User]
www.webtree.ca/windowsxp


"gp" <grum@invalid> wrote in message
news:425e4433$0$12159$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au...
> I have installed winXP on my PC .
> At boot up I get a prompt of whether to start windows XP home or
windows...
> with 25 sec countsdwn
>
> I dont want this screen to appear, what do i do to get rid of it this and
> let it boot up without this screen?
>
>
>