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Windows 2000 Splash Screen

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by jtucker9

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Is there any way to stop the Windows 2000 Splash Screen from comming up when the computer is booted? I have looked into this and was not able to find anything on this.

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by jasonschambers

You can disable the splash screen in the boot.ini file-
Use the /noguiboot

Example:
open the boot.ini file and =
[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="Windows 2000 Professional" /fastdetect /NOGUIBOOT
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\windows="Backup and restore" /fastdetect /sos
C:\CMDCONS\BOOTSECT.DAT="Microsoft Windows Recovery Console" /cmdcons

by dmiles

You have to add the parameter /noguiboot to the entry in BOOT.INI

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINNT=Windows2000" /fastdetect/noguiboot

The downside is /noguiboot also disables the blue screen error messages,may cause the system to lockup or reboot without giving any clue

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