Windows 2000 Administration in a Nutshell

Name

startup options

Synopsis

Specify whether and how long the boot menu is displayed during startup.

Procedures

The boot menu is the menu showing available operating systems and is displayed during startup. The boot menu is constructed from the entries in a Hidden, Read-only, System text file called boot.ini, which resides in the root directory of the boot partition. Although you can edit this file by hand, it is not recommended as a corrupted boot.ini file may prevent your system from booting:

Start → Settings → Control Panel → System → Advanced → Startup and Recovery

You can then specify:

• Which operating system the computer will automatically boot if you do not respond to the boot menu

• Whether the boot menu is displayed or not and how long it is displayed before the default choice is automatically made

Notes

• You must be a member of the Administrators group to configure startup options on your computer.

• You can configure startup options on remote computers by:

  Start → Programs → Administrative Tools → Computer Management → right-click on root node in console tree → “Connect to another computer” → select computer → OK → right-click on root node again → Properties → Advanced → Startup and Recovery

• If there is only one operating system installed on the computer, the boot menu is not displayed during startup.

• Setting the time of the “Display list of operating systems” to zero seconds causes the boot menu to be bypassed and the default operating system to be loaded automatically.

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