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Skip Operating System selection on boot
Published 1/27/2003 in Windows XP Performance Tweaks by TweakXP Member with 5,688 views

If you have more then one OS installed on your computer, but you don't use it very often, then you would probably want to boost up the startup by skiping the OS selection screen.

First make sure your windows is set not to hide "protected oporating system files" (by going to Control Panel\Folder Options\View tab, and ucheck the "hide protected oporating system files" checkbox)

Edit the boot.ini file in your c: drive, so that the timeout value will be "0" (timeout=0)

This will make your pc skip the os selection menu on startup.

If you ever want to use your other os you can change the value back to what it was in the first place.

 
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zyw
says it has to be between 3 and 999 seconds, it wouldnt accept 0 as an option.
287 days ago
tigerstickfigure
OK, for those of you who have never done this kind of thing before, go to Start/Run, then type "MSCONFIG" without quotes. One of the tabs which should be displayed is BOOT.INI and that is where you can choose a timeout value.
254 days ago
aswhole
rather than reducing timeout to 0 (with unintended consequences) edit the BOOT.INI (see above) and comment out the operating system line you don't want considered at start up time. How to comment out: enclose the entire line between brackets: [line]. When you want to reconsider that second or third operating system, remove the brackets.
162 days ago
 
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