Holding down the shift key to speed up goot?

[David Deley]

Say I come to a friend's Windows XP computer that's off. I want to boot
it quickly so I can check something, but I want it to skip loading all
those programs in the Startup Folder and other programs that take a long
time to load. Is there a way to do that?

I recall you used to be able to hold down one of the shift keys, don't
recall which one, when you first saw the clouds background, and that
suppressed the loading of all those extraneous programs that usually launch.

But tried that recently and holding down the shift key just brought up
the dialog for sticky keys.

 

[Claymore]

Say I come to a friend's Windows XP computer that's off. I want to boot
it quickly so I can check something, but I want it to skip loading all
those programs in the Startup Folder and other programs that take a long
time to load. Is there a way to do that?

I recall you used to be able to hold down one of the shift keys, don't
recall which one, when you first saw the clouds background, and that
suppressed the loading of all those extraneous programs that usually launch.

But tried that recently and holding down the shift key just brought up
the dialog for sticky keys.

Hello David,

This from Microsoft:

"After you click your user account or type your password, immediately
press the SHIFT key and hold it until your desktop and taskbar are
visible. Holding down the SHIFT key stops programs from loading
automatically."

Unless it has been specifically diabled in the Registry:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion
\Winlogon
In the DWORD IgnoreShiftOveride a Value of 0 allows this function, a
Value of 1 disables it.