Recovery Console" Screen @ Boot

[John Schwab]

When I boot up after upgrading XP Home to XP Professional,
there's a black&white, dos-like screen that asks me Which
Operating System I want to use: the Recovery Console or XP
Professional. It counts down 25 seconds and then
automatically loads XP Proff. How can I remove this screen
from the boot process and just get to XP Proff.?

 

[Ramesh [MVP]]

John,

Edit the Boot.ini and set the timeout to 0 or 1.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q289022#Task2

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Ramesh - Microsoft MVP
Windows XP Shell/User
http://www.mvps.org/sramesh2k

Windows 2000 Group Policy Registry Table:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/techinfo/reskit/en-us/gp/gpref.asp

When I boot up after upgrading XP Home to XP Professional,
there's a black&white, dos-like screen that asks me Which
Operating System I want to use: the Recovery Console or XP
Professional. It counts down 25 seconds and then
automatically loads XP Proff. How can I remove this screen
from the boot process and just get to XP Proff.?

 

[Kelly]

Hi John,

Go to Start/Run and type in: msconfig
Then go to the Boot.ini Tab and click on Check All Boot Paths. If you
receive a warning about a duplicate path: Do you want to remove, choose
yes.

Or...

Right click the My Computer icon/Properties/Advanced/Startup and
Recovery/Settings/System Startup/Edit.

How to Edit the BOOT.INI File in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q289/0/22.asp