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Trying to Hide Boot.ini & Boot.bxp
Name: gb49 Date: December 14, 2005 at 08:18:08 Pacific OS: WinXP CPU/Ram: Athlon64/768MB
Comment:
I recently installed BootXP from this site. http://www.bootxp.net/ Was going to change the boot screen but I decided not to mess w/ it. I installed and opened the program and then exited. I didn’t do anything else. The problem is the Boot.ini and Boot.bxp are now visible in the C: I always keep the radio button for "Show hidden files and folder" checked but I keep the box checked for "hide protected operating system files (recommended)". How the heck do I tell windows that these two files are operating system files and they should be hidden? They should be hidden even though I choose to see regular hidden files.
Name: wanderer Date: December 14, 2005 at 09:20:27 Pacific
Reply:
go to a cmd prompt. cd\ to the root of c: type attrib +s boot.ini type attrib +s boot.bxp
This will put the system attributes on the files.
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Response Number 2
Name: gb49 Date: December 14, 2005 at 11:31:47 Pacific
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That did it. I used attrib back in the DOS days, but its been so long. I did search Google but everything about boot.ini deals w/ people trying to find out where it's located on the hard drive. Cant beat the old command line.
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