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No countdown at startup
Name: Björn Stigberg Date: June 12, 1999 at 04:25:25 Pacific
Comment:
Hi!
plz forgive my spelling
I little prob:
In my boot.ini I have the following entry: Timeout=15
In Controlpanel - System I can change the startup time to something else.
But when I boot my machine it does not count down. It just waits for me to make a selection at the bootup menu...and it wais...and it wais...forever :)
Installed NT on an other machine and it behaves as it should.
Name: Lars Eriksson Date: June 12, 1999 at 14:51:23 Pacific
Reply:
The behavior you describe makes me thing about a registry key that I once read about. This registry key, which value you can set to –1, makes the system wait indefinitely for user input before booting NT as you described. Unfortunately I don’t remember which one it was. My suggestion is that you search through the Internet or the Microsoft Knowledgebase and I think that you will be able to find it.
Don’t even think about changing anything in the registry –or in any way tamper with it- unless you are 100% absolutely sure about what you are doing or you might end up with a useless system. -But I guess you knew about that already:-)
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