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by e1ias

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How can I avoid having the boot options screen popup ? I only have Win2000 on my machine and it seems pointless.

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by teamadmin

hi.. if u have only one OS why boot options wll come ?? any way ....
Go to Run--> c:\boot.ini one notepad file will open change "time out=30" to timeout=0 or 1. check "default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(3)\WINNT " this sholud be Equal to the line in front of ur OS option. save and exit.from next time u con't see the options.. if u want to see that press "Esc" before it starts.

by p.j.hutchison

If you don`t want to edit boot.ini directly, you can change the Startup options via the System control panel, Advanced, Startup and Recovery settings. Set the delay time to 0.

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