Startup problems

[kat]

Hi,
Every time I startup I get the Windows 98 Startup Menu with "Normal" start highlighted. Also there is a 26 second countdown which will start everything if enter is not hit prior to reaching zero. After things get going and progress I get "hit any key to continue", also this has some kind of a timer on it too. Any help getting this fixed would be greatly appreceiated.
Thanks
Have a great day.
kat

Master of Disaster!!!

[reghakr]

Go to Start>Run, type msconfig, click the Advanced button and uncheck "Enable Startup Menu"

By default Windows 9x automatically loads the GUI (or Windows Desktop) with this key you can control whether the GUI is loaded or if you just want the MS-DOS 7.0 prompt.

1. Change the attributes for MSDOS.SYS so it is not 'Read Only', MSDOS.SYS is found in the root directory of your C:\ drive. Open the file using Notepad or another text editor (not Microsoft Word or any word processor).

2. Change the value of 'BootGUI=' to 'BootGUI=1' for GUI enabled or 'BootGUI=0' GUI disabled.

3. Changes will take place on the next reboot.

Then edit the msdos.sys file manually or with TweakUI:

Add this under the [Options] section in msdos.sys:
BootMenuDelay=5
BootDelay=2

This means it will countdown 5 seconds rather than the default 30 seconds.

But only only have 2 seconds that the function keys are available.

reghakr