XP Start Up

[Jeff]

Each time I boot my machine there is a black screen which lets you pick the
system to start. I have only one system on the computer. It has a countdown
from 27 seconds before continuing.

How can I change this to about 2-3 seconds and stop having to click Enter to
go on into booting up.

Jeff

 

[Guest]

Right click My Computer - Properties - Advanced - [Startup and Recovery] -
Settings.

 

[Brian A.]

You need to edit your boot.ini file to remove any erroneous entry. Make
sure you have a backup before you edit the boot.ini in the event you remove
the wrong entry or something go amiss.

If you only have one drive installedand the OS is installed on C: the
boot.ini should look like:

[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="XP Professional"
/noexecute=optin /fastdetect

Take note that the above may wrap in your mail reader. In the boot.ini
each entry begining with default= and multi(0) should be on there own line
without any wrap.

To edi the boot.ini:
Right click on MyComputer.
Click the Advanced tab > Startup and Recovery - Settings button > System
startup - Edit button.

The boot.ini will open in notepad and if any line are wrapped click Format
on the Menu bar and remove the check from Word Wrap.
When done editing, save and exit, click Ok > Ok and reboot.

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