[hello]

Can some one help to write tipp or tricks to stop viewing DOS style windows showing with countdown which Operating System you want to continue.... Windows XP or Windows
Nice to hear good tipps and tricks with registery change or alteration
Wish all the coming Christmas days... and change of year

[Mertsch]

in your root dir is a file called boot.ini (typically hidden) which controls what is displayed and how long

so check c:boot.ini

or use Start --> Run --> msconfig

to edit this file

my boot.ini look like this

[boot loader]

timeout=30

default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)WINDOWS

[operating systems]

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect /usepmtimer

please note that the parameters can be different on your sysem but in general it should look like this

[hello]

While checking c:boot.ini file, I found the following entry:
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect
C:="Microsoft Windows"

Now can i remove this entry in this boot loader file. Will it resolve the issue then?

Thanks and nice to hear your advise.

[Mertsch]

is your windows installed in
c:windows
or
c:Microsoft Windows
?

if c:windows
use msconfig to select and remove the last line (if possible)