How do I decrease the boot delay?
John Savill
March 4, 1999
1 Min Read
A. There are two ways of performing this change, the first method just automates the second method.
Method 1
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
Method 2
Method 1 just updates the timeout value in the [boot loader] section of boot.ini so we can do this manually:
Set the file to non-system and non-read-only
attrib c:boot.ini -r -sEdit 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 changesSet the file back to system and read-only
attrib c:boot.ini +r +s
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