Windows XP Boot up delay, dual boot to Windows. How to prevent the boot up delay for Windows XP.
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During boot up if you see:- Please select the operating system to start: Microsoft Windows XP Professional Microsoft Windows. This is a way to make Windows boot up automatically without this delay during boot up.
This is not playing if you have a problem when you are booting up into Windows, and you might see a screen come up like this and you are basically, in task at this moment. Please select an operating system to start. Windows XP Professional on Microsoft Windows and then there will be a delay for 30 seconds. Now, you can hit enter to get pass this but the reason is not much way of getting pass this as well. And that is what this video is about so that when you boot, it will boot up straight into Windows XP. Thanks and best wishes.
But we need to be in fact going on Windows Explorer. You all probably doing the start, all programs, accessories, and scroll down and you should find Windows Explorer.
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When you open up, that will probably open up in your documents.
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Scroll down find My Computer.
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Click on that, click on the C Drive. And that shows up the main folders on the C Drive. And we need to ensure the operating system found so go up to the top menu click on Tools, click on Folder Options, click on the View Tab.
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Scroll down a bit probably, where it says Hide protected operating system files (Recommended) and ON, just deselect that you will get a warning box of –
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Basically select Yes. Click Apply, click OK, that ensures these files the extension on yours might be hidden so that just spends whether that is also set on the default options. I like to show my extension so you know what type of file is by looking at it. Right click on the boot.ini which is a file we need to change. Scroll down and click Properties.
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We need to be changing this path so we need to take off the Read-only attribute here, just deselect that by clicking in the box, click Apply, click OK. And we need to change this file now so right click on it, and you might capital yours open with or we want to open it with Notepad so you might see Notepad there. And here, you can timeout, it was set to 30. This is basically the main reason why it is causing the delay. So we can delete the three and going on to the File, going to Save. That file is now saved. Click File again and click Exit.
Now, it is best to put this files back as they where. So again, right click on boot.ini or it might save boot on your machine. Click on Properties and select the Read-only attribute, so at the top, it is now applied. Select Apply. Click OK. Put the folders back so that all these operating systems hidden again. Go back on the Tools, select Folder Options, select View, scroll down a bit Hide protected operating system (Recommended) software, select Yes, click Apply and click OK. And then, when you reboot or close Windows just go to File and click Close.
When you reboot that delay, should now be stop and should boot straight open to Windows.
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