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Howdy!

After using a Commodore 64 PC for 10 Years, I started using a 486DX33, then
12 Years later I decided to buy a computer running XP.

Whenever I turned XP on I had to watch that "Cyborg" Blue Line moving for
a long time before I could see anything starting up on the monitor screen.

My experience with the Commodore 64 being ready to use as soon as the Power
Switch was turned On, and because Booting to MS-DOS on the 486 was fairly
quick, I decided to find out if I could Shorten the length of time I had to
wait and watch the Blue Line moving on the screen before I would see XP
starting up, figuring I could get to the Log On window sooner to use the PC.

In the C:\ Directory, I saw that the BOOT.INI file had a line: "timeout=30" .
I copied the BOOT.INI and named the copy BOOT.BAK , and then changed the
"timeout=" Value to 3 in BOOT.INI ..

Recently I started thinking that My idea to change the "timeout=" value might
not had been as good as I thought, as Microsoft may have had a reason for the
moving line on the screen staying on as long as it did.

It might be the XP OS was doing something it needed to set up before anything
else started up on that computer.

I thought I'd ask here if anyone thought I goofed when I changed that line
to a shorter time.

Or if what I did was O.K.

Thanks es 73 de Ed W9ODR              .              .


... There is always one more thing for Me to learn...
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