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Win 95 Start Up Menu
Name: DiscSurfer Date: October 20, 2002 at 14:28:52 Pacific OS: Windows 95 CPU/Ram: Intel Pent. 133mhz
Comment:
Friend of mine has an IBM PC 750. Windows 95 Start Up Menu appears every time system boots. If I hit the "enter" key, system immediately finishes booting Windows 95 normally. How do I stop Win 95 startup menu from appearing? I don't see a command line in Autoexec.bat telling system to bring up the Start Up Menu. Suggestions?
Name: jake Date: October 20, 2002 at 14:37:11 Pacific
Reply:
Run msconfig (Start/Run type msconfig), Advanced tab - check for 'Enable Startup Menu'.
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Response Number 2
Name: . Date: October 20, 2002 at 15:00:17 Pacific
Reply:
Since msconfig does not come with Win95 then copy it from a Win98 machine and install it in the same directory that you copied it from.
It works fine and is OK with MS to do so.
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Response Number 3
Name: heat Date: October 20, 2002 at 19:01:25 Pacific
Reply:
MSDOS.SYS has the following two lines: BootMenu=1 and another line with something like ## for delay in seconds BootMenuDelay=20
If you edit the first line this way: BootMenu=0 it won't "bother" you any more... but personally, I like to keep it, but with a very short delay (2 secs), 'cause if I miss pressing the F8 key at the right time, I have just wasted a whole lot longer time booting to Windows, then shut down, then cross my fingers that I can time my F8 right the next time... just not worth the hassle. How long is 2 seconds?
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