Dual Boot Menu - Delay

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Thanks to all that reply.

Thanks to Forum input, I now have a dual boot system from
2 hard drives (ME on C: drive and XP Home Ed. on D. I
am using the Dual Boot Menu to select OS on start-up.

Now I want to change the amount of time the Dual Boot Menu
allows to choose the desired OS. Can that be done? If
so - how.

Thanks,
Jim

 

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Jim Dahlstrom wrote:
> Thanks to all that reply.
>
> Thanks to Forum input, I now have a dual boot system from
> 2 hard drives (ME on C: drive and XP Home Ed. on D. I
> am using the Dual Boot Menu to select OS on start-up.
>
> Now I want to change the amount of time the Dual Boot Menu
> allows to choose the desired OS. Can that be done? If
> so - how.

While booted into XP right click on the My Computer icon and select
Properties. Go to the Advanced tab and click the Settings button under
Startup and Recovery. Under System startup you can specify the time to
display list of operating systems. By default this is 30 seconds,
increase or decrease as you desire.

You can also manually edit the boot.ini file. Modify the timeout=
value in the [boot loader] section.
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Tom Porterfield
MS-MVP MCE
http://support.telop.org

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Thanks Tom. Just what I needed.

Jim
>-----Original Message-----
>Jim Dahlstrom wrote:
>> Thanks to all that reply.
>>
>> Thanks to Forum input, I now have a dual boot system
from
>> 2 hard drives (ME on C: drive and XP Home Ed. on D.
I
>> am using the Dual Boot Menu to select OS on start-up.
>>
>> Now I want to change the amount of time the Dual Boot
Menu
>> allows to choose the desired OS. Can that be done? If
>> so - how.
>
>While booted into XP right click on the My Computer icon
and select
>Properties. Go to the Advanced tab and click the
Settings button under
>Startup and Recovery. Under System startup you can
specify the time to
>display list of operating systems. By default this is 30
seconds,
>increase or decrease as you desire.
>
>You can also manually edit the boot.ini file. Modify
the timeout=
>value in the [boot loader] section.
>--
>Tom Porterfield
>MS-MVP MCE
>http://support.telop.org
>
>Please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup only.
>.
>