No Background Screen during boot up

[Chuck]

I have done something to remove the background screen during boot up, and shut down. Now I get a screen that changes, and tells me what it is doing. Things such as "playing start up sound" etc. Same thing happens when it shuts down. Any ideas on how to change back to original specs.

 

[anonymous]

in display\desktop
select a background
press apply
select your normal background
press apply
logoff\logon
what happens?

-----Original Message-----
I have done something to remove the background screen

during boot up, and shut down. Now I get a screen that
changes, and tells me what it is doing. Things such
as "playing start up sound" etc. Same thing happens when
it shuts down. Any ideas on how to change back to
original specs.

 

[Chuck]

Still does the same thing

in display\desktop
select a background
press apply
select your normal background
press apply
logoff\logon
what happens?


during boot up, and shut down. Now I get a screen that
changes, and tells me what it is doing. Things such
as "playing start up sound" etc. Same thing happens when
it shuts down. Any ideas on how to change back to
original specs.

 

[Kelly]

Hi Chuck,

Go to Start/Run/Msconfig/Boot.ini and uncheck /NoGuiBoot.

/top10faqs.htm


I have done something to remove the background screen during boot up, and
shut down. Now I get a screen that changes, and tells me what it is doing.
Things such as "playing start up sound" etc. Same thing happens when it
shuts down. Any ideas on how to change back to original specs.

 

[Chuck]

No check in Boot.ini /NoGuiBoot

 

[Doug Knox MS-MVP]

If you're running XP Pro, go to Start, Run and enter GPEDIT.MSC Go to:

Computer Configuration, Administrative Templates, System. Look in the right
pane for Verbose vs. normal status messages. Double click this entry and
set it to Disabled or Not Configured.

For XP Home, click Start, Run and enter REGEDIT Go to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System

Look in the right pane for a value called VerboseStatus. If the value
exists, right click it and select Modify and change the value to 0, or right
click and select Delete.



I have done something to remove the background screen during boot up, and
shut down. Now I get a screen that changes, and tells me what it is doing.
Things such as "playing start up sound" etc. Same thing happens when it
shuts down. Any ideas on how to change back to original specs.

 

[Chuck]

Home Edition-- first didn't work, but trying it again, with second
suggestion did work. Thank you.

 

[Jefry]

Chuck,
Tell me how you got it to do that! Or, if any of our MS experts can figure
it out, send it my way, please I'd like to see the process's dialog myself;
similar to an old DOS boot, sort of.

--
Sincerely,
Jefry

Any day above ground is a good day!
I have done something to remove the background screen during boot up, and
shut down. Now I get a screen that changes, and tells me what it is doing.
Things such as "playing start up sound" etc. Same thing happens when it
shuts down. Any ideas on how to change back to original specs.

 

[David Candy]

Remove or add /sos to boot.ini

Here's my line
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect /SOS

 

[_ _ J]

Hello Jefry,

As well as David's suggestion to add "/sos" in BOOT.ini,
you could enable "Verbose Status" mode during startup/shutdown.


In XP Home Edition...

H-1)- Launch Windows Registry Editor via...

[Start]
| Run |
regedit
[Enter]


H-2)- Navigate to this key...

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\system]


H-3)- In the right pane, look for a value named "VerboseStatus".

If this value does not exist, then right-click in a blank
area of the right pane and select | New | DWord value |.
Name it "VerboseStatus".

Now, double-click this value and set it to 1 (one).
---

In Windows XP Pro,

[Start]
| Run |
gpedit
[Enter]

- Computer Configuration
- Administrative Templates
- System

Right-click "Verbose vs normal status messages"
Click | Properties |

/Settings\
(*) "Enabled"

Note: This setting is ignored if the "Remove Boot/Shutdown/Logon/Logoff status messages" setting is
enabled.

--
Regards,
Jan

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| Chuck,
| Tell me how you got it to do that!
| I'd like to see the process's dialog myself; similar to an old DOS boot, sort of.
|
| --
| Sincerely,
| Jefry



| I have done something to remove the background screen during boot up, and
| shut down. Now I get a screen that changes, and tells me what it is doing.
| Things such as "playing start up sound" etc. Same thing happens when it
| shuts down. Any ideas on how to change back to original specs.
|
|