boot to command prompt only

[jd]

in win9x I used to be able to boot only to a command prompt. I'd like to do
this with 2000 so I can test the pc. Safe mode with command prompt takes
too long.
thanks in advance.

 

[Dave Patrick]

Test in what way? Boot a win98 startup disk or dos disk. www.bootdisk.com

 

[jd]

what I should have said was, I want the pc to continually reboot itself. I
tried putting shutdown.exe in task manager. it did not work and now I can't
get shutdown.exe out of the task manager. oh joy. thx again.

 

[jd]

i deleted shutdown.exe from task scheduler by running it one time only vs.
when my computer starts and instructed it to delete the task. <whew>
still need a way to constantly and safely reboot the pc.

 

[Dave Patrick]

I don't know what that means. "putting shutdown.exe in task manager"

 

[NuT CrAcKeR]

scheduled tasks....

I don't know what that means. "putting shutdown.exe in task manager"

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Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
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what I should have said was, I want the pc to continually reboot itself. I
tried putting shutdown.exe in task manager. it did not work and now I can't
get shutdown.exe out of the task manager. oh joy. thx again.

 

[jd]

Well... this pc i fixed had an intermittent startup problem. the classic
press f1 to continue or del to enter bios. I've hopefully fixed it but
unlike some people I know, if it starts a couple of times they think the
problem is solved. I always like to shutdown and reboot multiple times as
part of testing.
thx.

 

[fddi]

It does work, thank you. A note of caution... if someone uses this and has
a real slow pc, like me... AND changes 60000 to 10000, there is no time to
change this back to 60000 before the pc reboots. Had to reboot to command
prompt and rename sleep.vbs to sleep.txt
I cannot get sleep.vbs out of the Scheduled Tasks. Even if I select "delete
the task". This was before renaming to .txt
One other note... it runs no matter whom logs on.