XP Boot Promt

[bleh]

hey everyone
i have been swapping around my boot screens the old fashioned way for a while when i decided to start using a program (booteditor) but for some reson, it didn\'t work so i deleted it, but now even though i still get my custom boot screen i get this annoying promt everytime i startup saying do i want to start in windows xp or OS testing for new boot screen (or somthing similer) which is a real pain in the arse because it means i have to wait for it to come up before my computer starts up
jim

[Bleh]

oh yeah and i forgot to ask ... how do i get rid of it! http://images.thetechguide.com/forum/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\'\' />

[Guest]

BootEditor added a line in your boot.ini file (hidden file found in C:\) for the new boot screen. If it doesn't work, then you can boot with your old boot screen. If you want to get rid of that line, just open your boot.ini file and delete the appropriate line, that's all. This is what a normal XP Home boot.ini file looks like:

[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 Home Edition" /fastdetect

This is my current boot.ini:

[boot loader]
timeout=5
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Windows XP Pirated Edition (bootscreen)" /fastdetect /KERNEL=kernel1.exe
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Windows XP Home Edition" /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Windows XP Safe Mode" /fastdetect/safeboot:minimal
C:\cmdcons\bootsect.dat="Microsoft Windows Recovery Console" /cmdcons

This is the line for the default Windows boot screen:

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition" /fastdetect

Don't delete that one. http://images.thetechguide.com/forum/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\'\' />

This is my custom boot screen I made with BootEditor, and applied with StyleXP:

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Windows XP Pirated Edition (bootscreen)" /fastdetect /KERNEL=kernel1.exe

The default time for Windows to wait for you to choose the OS to run is 30 seconds. I changed it to 5 seconds for obvious reasons. Just change "timeout=30" to "timeout=5" or however many seconds you want it to wait.

Hope that helped.

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