At start-up, Windows NT 4.0 provides a boot menu that lets you choose which operating system you want to launch. If you run multiple versions of NT or dual-bootDOS or a previous version of Windows, you'll use this menu regularly. By default, this menu remains onscreen for 30 seconds. You can adjust the setting to a more reasonable 5 seconds using the Control Panel's System applet. But if you want the menu to wait indefinitely for your choice, you must manually edit the Boot.ini text file. Find the file in the root of the boot drive, right-click, choose Properties, and clear the read-only attribute. Now open Boot.ini using Notepad and look in the [boot loader] section; change the Timeout value to-1, save the file, and restore its read-only attribute. |
