Deactivate Windows Starting Screen

[Oliver Meike]

Hello Everybody,
I would like to deactivate the starting screen so I can see, what Windows is
doing (loading drivers and so on) during the startup. Does anybody know, how
this works? I found nothing about it on the internet.
Thanks,
Oliver.

[Unknown]

Xref: kermit microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics:146559

That, if I understand you correctly is done in safe mode where you have
the option of seeing every step of the boot process.
"Oliver Meike" > wrote in message
...
> Hello Everybody,
> I would like to deactivate the starting screen so I can see, what
Windows is
> doing (loading drivers and so on) during the startup. Does anybody
know, how
> this works? I found nothing about it on the internet.
> Thanks,
> Oliver.
>
>

[Oliver Meike]

"Unknown" > wrote
> That, if I understand you correctly is done in safe mode where you have
> the option of seeing every step of the boot process.

Is there no way to show each step during normal startup? Sometimes there is
a "starting error", but only in normal mode and not in safe mode.
Thanx,
Oliver.

[Doug Knox MS-MVP]

Go to Control Panel, System, Advanced, Startup and Recovery, Settings. In
the System Startup section click the Edit button. Locate the entry in your
BOOT.INI file for your XP install. Add /SOS to the end of the line.

Example:

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

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"Oliver Meike" > wrote in message
...
> Hello Everybody,
> I would like to deactivate the starting screen so I can see, what Windows
is
> doing (loading drivers and so on) during the startup. Does anybody know,
how
> this works? I found nothing about it on the internet.
> Thanks,
> Oliver.
>
>

[Oliver Meike]

Thank you very much! That is it, what I was looking for!!
Oliver.

[Doug Knox MS-MVP]

You're welcome :)

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Win 95/98/Me/XP Tweaks and Fixes
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"Oliver Meike" > wrote in message
...
> Thank you very much! That is it, what I was looking for!!
> Oliver.
>
>