boot up question

[harderclock]

im running win 98se and i want to view the informatin when i boot up is there a key i need to hold down to stop the boot up screens.thanks in advance

[Wa11y]

Hhhmmm....press F8 when your BIOS is done booting, and it should give you some options. One of them might be it. You can do a step-by-step confirmation, which is where it asks you before it loads ANYTHING. Or you can hit escape on the Win98 Splash Screen, and it'll show you what's going on currently.

Hope this helps.

[redduc900]

If you're talking about disabling the Windows splash screen during boot-up (so you can see the information being displayed), then I would use TweakUI to disable it. You can edit the msdos.sys file yourself, but it's safer to let TweakUI do it for you.

TweakUI isn't on the Win98SE disk (upgrade version...it might be on the full version), but it is on the Win98 disk...it's under \tools\reskit\powertoy. You can also download it from numerous sites online...if you want to edit the msdos.sys file manually or don't have a Win98 disk, let me know and I'll help guide you through it.;)

[harderclock]

Originally posted by redduc900
If you're talking about disabling the Windows splash screen during boot-up (so you can see the information being displayed), then I would use TweakUI to disable it. You can edit the msdos.sys file yourself, but it's safer to let TweakUI do it for you.

TweakUI isn't on the Win98SE disk (upgrade version...it might be on the full version), but it is on the Win98 disk...it's under \tools\reskit\powertoy. You can also download it from numerous sites online...if you want to edit the msdos.sys file manually or don't have a Win98 disk, let me know and I'll help guide you through it.;)

ok ill take you up on that im always up for learning new dos tricks and thanks

[!-=sky=-!]

with my experience the tweakui is only on the windows 98 "first edition" cdrom....its not on "second edition" upgrade or full version....

[redduc900]

ok ill take you up on that im always up for learning new dos tricks and thanks

First, you'll need to locate the msdos.sys file...it should be in your root directory. If you don't see the file...in Explorer, go to | Tools (or View, I can't remember which in Win98) | Options, and "Show all Files". Right click the file, choose "Properties", and uncheck the read-only attribute.

Next, you'll need to edit the msdos.sys file. In the "Run" box, type...notepad c:\msdos.sys (if msdos.sys is in you're root directory). Msdos.sys will open in notepad, in the [Options] section add the line Logo=0 (if you don't already see Logo=1). If you do see Logo=1, change the 1 to a 0 so it looks like this...Logo=0.

You're [Options] section should look something like this...

[Options]
BootMulti=1
BootGUI=1
AutoScan=1
WinVer=4.90.3000
Logo=0

Save the msdos.sys file, change the attributes back to read-only and reboot for the change to take effect

You can also do it this way...

1) Click "start", "run", then type in command.com and Click "OK"

2) Type in CD \ [ENTER]

3) Type in attrib -r -s -h msdos.sys [ENTER]

4) Type in edit msdos.sys [ENTER]

5) Scroll down to the [Options]section, and add on a new line Logo=0 (Zero), or change the existing Logo=1. Save the file and exit.

6) Type in attrib +r +s +h msdos.sys [ENTER]

7) Type in exit [ENTER]

8) Shut down Windows and reboot. The logo screen will not be displayed!

[harderclock]

thanks a lot for the the information im going to apply it tonight i dont have the time right now im off to a pic nic in the park and thanks again

[Violator]

Dude if you're meaning the bootup screen where it shows you all the system info, why not just hit 'pause', works for me ;)

Or if you wanna view any text on screen while the PC is booting just hit ESC when the splash screen is on, saves editing DOS files and all that.