Subj : Re: Menu Error...
To   : Jeff Guerdat
From : Alan Zisman
Date : Mon Feb 23 2004 09:07 am

-=> Jeff Guerdat wrote to D.L. Schmidt <=-

 JG> On 02-22-04, D.L. Schmidt said to All:

 DS>I'm having a slight error in a W98se machine.
 DS>During a software installation the CD-Rom died and the system was showing
 DS>bunches of vxd errors during bootup. After reloading windows the errors
 DS>stopped but now I get the boot up menu for choice of how do I want to log
 DS>into windows. How could I fix this problem?

 JG> In the Network control panel, use the Windows logon instead of one of
 JG> the networking logons.  You may also want to delete or rename any *.pwl
 JG> (password list) files so that you're prompted at the next logon and can
 JG> respond with an empty password.  That should allow the boot to go
 JG> straight into the desktop with no more prompts.

That will (hopefully-- on some systems, I can't get it to work no way no how... 
so I set TweakUI to autologin) get rid of the log on dialogue, but not the 
initial boot menu, which I assume he's referring to... for that one, it may be 
necessary to edit C:\MSDOS.SYS in Notepad (first turning off the 
hidden/system/readonly attributes)

Check for a line in the [options] section reading:
BootMenu=1

If it exists, change the '1' to '0'. If it doesn't exist, add 
BootMenu=0
to the [options] section. Be sure to check down to the very bottom of the 
file... many copies of MSDOS.SYS have multiple lines of commented out 'X's to 
make the file larger than 1024 bytes... and options lines sometimes appear at 
the bottom, after the 'X's.
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