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by hellie6402

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All of the sudden when system boots I get a box that gives 4 boot options instead of automatically going into Windows. How can I get rid of this? WHy did it occur

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by glarbes1

This is most probably a bios issue. Go into the bios setup and go to the advanced setup where you will see your boot up options. You might see something there about display boot options, just disable it and press F10 to save. Hope this helps!

by tom.greendyk

I know there's a file that can specify multiple boot options.

It's either IO.SYS or MSDOS.SYS (I can't remember which one) -- do a find for either of these and view them. If you see multiple bot lines, comment out the ones you don't need.

Tom G

by thechas

If your boot options are:

Normal
Safe mode
Command prompt
Command prompt in Safe mode
(I'm paraphrasing a bit here.)

The boot menu has been enabled.

The simplest way to get rid of it, is to install and run TweakUI from Microsoft.

Youmay be able to change this behavior from the startup section of msconfig.
Start msconfig by typing it in the run box on the start menu.

On the boot/startup options section, make sure that the box to automatically start the GUI is checked.
Alternately, you can set the boot delay to 5 seconds or so in case you wish to have the option to boot into safe mode.

How did it happen?
Hard to say. A software install or update may have changed or replaced msdos.sys
msdos.sys may have been corrupted, and Windows repaired it, setting the boot menu option in the process.

Chas

by hellie6402

This is the menu I am getting. Have tried msconfig & BIOS settings - just can't find where to change the boot to auto start the GUI. Also where do I find where I can change boot delay??

by ann_m

there is another option run msconfig from windows and uncheck the block that says diagnostic start-up

by thechas

Hi, just checked things out on a W98 box.

There is no option to bypass the boot menu from msconfig.

You need to either install TweakUI from Microsoft:

http://tinyurl.com/i4p

or, edit the msdos.sys file.

In TweakUI, on the boot tab, make sure that the box to start GUI automatically is checked.
There are other options on the tab to control the boot menus.

After you download TweakUi, you need to extract the files, then right click on tweakui and select install from the menu.
This is covered in the readme file.

You access TweakUI from Settings / Control Panel.

To edit msdos.sys, open notepad.
Select File Open,
change the file type to all files,
browse to the root folder of your C: drive.
Find the file msdos.sys and open it.

Find the line that says:
BootGUI=0

change the 0 to a 1

save the file.

CAUTION: do not add any characters, or delete any additional characters.
MSDOS.sys must be a specific size to operate properly.

Chas

by hellie6402

Went into msdos.sys and GUI was already at 1. So I relented and downloaded TweakUI - all better!!

by tonydee

What are the boot options? The WIn Startup menu consists of 7 options in Win 98SE. Don't know about 98 first edition.
To disable the startup menu in 98SE:
Run --> msconfig
Click on the "General" tab.
Click on the "Advanced" Button.
Uncheck the "Enable Startup Menu" option if it's enabled.
- Tony D

by d_n_a1au

G'day mate,
you will have to do a search for the boot.ini file. the file is listed as hidden so you would have to make sure in the folder option show all hidden files. in there you have the option on what you want to do to it..even if you have a double boot or tripple boot o/s or you can delete the additional ones that appears in your case.

changed that my self on double boot and tripple boot o/s

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