Boot Loader

[Guest]

I am deploying about 100 PC's in my enterprise. I used a combination of
sysprep and PQDC to deploy the image to all workstations. The problem that I
have now is that there is a security requirement that all workstations have
the following setting in the boot.ini file:

[boot loader]
timeout=3

When I used sysprep this value was defaulted to 30. I know it was defaulted
to 30 because before I made my image I manually set this to 3 vice the
Windows default 30. My question is how do I change all the workstations in
my enterprise now that they are deployed?

Thanks for the help,
Dave

 

[Johan Arwidmark]

Sysprep resets the value to 30 second during mini-setup.

You can use a script in cmdlines.txt for sysprep (yes, sysprep has one
too) to set the timeout value

I have used the XP built-in bootcfg tool (dont remember if it exists
in win2000). The syntax is

bootcfg /timeout 3

Otherwise you can use a vbscript that changes the timeout value in
boot.ini

regards
Johan Arwidmark

Windows User Group - Nordic
http://www.wug-nordic.net