How do I decrease the boot delay?

Logon as Administrator

Start the System Control Panel applet (start - Settings - Control Panel - System)

Select the Start-up/Shutdown tab

In the "Show list for" box set the number of seconds to the delay required

Set the file to non-system and non-read-only
attrib c:boot.ini -r -s

Edit the file and change the timeout value to whatever you want, e.g. to make it wait for 5 seconds change to
timeout= 5
Save your changes

Set the file back to system and read-only
attrib c:boot.ini +r +s