Advanced Options Menu

[Guest]

Have a XP Pro SP2 laptop. At every boot it displays the Windows Advanced
Options Menu (Safe mode, normal, last known etc). I've racked my brain and
can't seem to find where to turn this off. I've ran chkdsk with all the
options but it still displays.

Any help would be appreciated

 

[PinG]

Try this:

Open System in Control Panel (if you use Category View begin by clicking on
Performance and Maintenance). On the Advanced tab, under Startup and
Recovery, click Settings. Under System startup, click to uncheck "Time to
display recovery options when needed"

| Have a XP Pro SP2 laptop. At every boot it displays the Windows Advanced
| Options Menu (Safe mode, normal, last known etc). I've racked my brain and
| can't seem to find where to turn this off. I've ran chkdsk with all the
| options but it still displays.
|
| Any help would be appreciated
|

 

[Guest]

Unfortunately that doesn't work. The menu just sits there until i choose normal

 

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

BillD,

Are you also seeing this error message at every boot up?

"We apologize for the inconvenience, but Windows did not start successfully.
A recent hardware or software change might have caused this."

--
Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User]
Windows® XP Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com


Unfortunately that doesn't work. The menu just sits there until i choose
normal

 

[Guest]

Ramesh,
No error message just the normal screen you get when you press F8.

BillD,

Are you also seeing this error message at every boot up?

"We apologize for the inconvenience, but Windows did not start successfully.
A recent hardware or software change might have caused this."

--
Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User]
Windows® XP Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com


Unfortunately that doesn't work. The menu just sits there until i choose
normal

Try this:

Open System in Control Panel (if you use Category View begin by clicking
on
Performance and Maintenance). On the Advanced tab, under Startup and
Recovery, click Settings. Under System startup, click to uncheck "Time to
display recovery options when needed"

 

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

BillD,

See if renaming the bootstat.dat (present in Windows folder) helps.

--
Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User]
Windows® XP Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com


Ramesh,
No error message just the normal screen you get when you press F8.

BillD,

Are you also seeing this error message at every boot up?

"We apologize for the inconvenience, but Windows did not start
successfully.
A recent hardware or software change might have caused this."

--
Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User]
Windows® XP Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com


Unfortunately that doesn't work. The menu just sits there until i choose
normal

Try this:

Open System in Control Panel (if you use Category View begin by clicking
on
Performance and Maintenance). On the Advanced tab, under Startup and
Recovery, click Settings. Under System startup, click to uncheck "Time
to
display recovery options when needed"

 

[Guest]

Ramesh,

Just tried it and it didn't make any diference. Everything seems to be
working fine maybe I should just give up

BillD,

See if renaming the bootstat.dat (present in Windows folder) helps.

--
Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User]
Windows® XP Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com


Ramesh,
No error message just the normal screen you get when you press F8.

BillD,

Are you also seeing this error message at every boot up?

"We apologize for the inconvenience, but Windows did not start
successfully.
A recent hardware or software change might have caused this."

--
Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User]
Windows® XP Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com


Unfortunately that doesn't work. The menu just sits there until i choose
normal

Try this:

Open System in Control Panel (if you use Category View begin by clicking
on
Performance and Maintenance). On the Advanced tab, under Startup and
Recovery, click Settings. Under System startup, click to uncheck "Time
to
display recovery options when needed"

 

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

BillD,

No idea why this happens. Can you post the Boot.ini file contents?

Type in Start, Run:

NOTEPAD C:\BOOT.INI

Copy/Paste the contents here.

--
Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User]
Windows® XP Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com


Ramesh,

Just tried it and it didn't make any diference. Everything seems to be
working fine maybe I should just give up

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