Multi-system startup secrets: how to set Boot. ini

After multiple systems (such as Windows 98 and Windows XP) are installed on the computer, a system boot menu is displayed every time you start the computer. Select the system you want to enter and press Enter. The Bootstrap program is named Boot. ini: The program is automatically installed when Windows 2000 (XP) is installed. You can use it to easily boot multiple systems on your computer. You can also use this boot file to set a personalized boot menu. The Boot. ini file is located in the root directory of the C drive and is a hidden file. Enter "c: \ boot. ini" in "run" to start the file (1 ).

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1.Custom latency
The delay time is used to enter the default Operating System when you do not perform any operations within the set delay time after the boot menu is started. The default latency is 30 seconds. If you feel that the default latency is too long, you can enter the required latency, for example, 10 seconds. Enable Boot first. ini file (note that you need to remove the hidden and read-only attributes of this file), then find the "timeout =" statement in the [boot loader] field, and change 30 to 10. You can also modify the system configuration utility. In "Start/run", type the "Msconfig" command, and click "Boot. ini "label (2) in" Boot. in the ini interface, enter the required latency in the "timeout XX seconds" field.

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2.Custom display content
When a multi-system is started, there is an operating system selection list that displays the names of all operating systems on the computer, such as Microsoft Windows XP Professional. We can modify the display content and load some personalized settings. Open "boot. ini file, find the [operating systems] field, this field is to display the current operating system list, its format is multi (0) disk (0) rdisk (0) partition (3) \ WINDOWS = "Microsoft Windows XP Professional"/fastdetect. The following quotation marks are the content displayed when the system starts. You only need to change the content in the quotation marks to the text you need (1 ).

3.Define default start System
After multiple systems are installed, Boot. ini sets one of the systems as the default Boot system, such as Windows XP. After the delay time is exceeded, the default system is automatically started. We can change the default startup system to another system (such as Windows 98) as needed ). Right-click my computer, select properties, and click Advanced in the system Properties dialog box, then select the "Settings" button in the "Start and fault recovery" items below to bring up a "Start and fault recovery" dialog box (3 ). Click the default Operating System drop-down menu in "system startup", select a required system, and click "OK.

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4.Load startup parameters and change the startup Screen
Boot. ini provides many parameter commands when booting a multi-system. These startup parameters can have different startup effects. The/fastdetect parameter is loaded by default in Boot. ini, indicating that the serial port and parallel port are not checked during startup. In fact, we can change it to another parameter. When changing it, first select the system list to be changed in "Boot. ini", and then change the/fastdetect parameter in the system to the corresponding parameter value. After the system is started, some settings or images will be loaded. We can set some parameters in "System Configuration Utility" and switch to "Boot. ini option. Select the system to be changed, and then select the required startup parameters at the lower end of "startup options. Several common parameters are described here.
/SAFEBOOT: Safe start. Only drivers and services in HKLM \ System \ CurrentControlSetControl \ SafeBoot are started. The following parameters can be used with Minimal, Network, or Dsrepair. Minimal and Network allow you to start the system over a Network connection. Dsrepair requires the system to transfer the Active Directory settings from the backup device. Another option is Minimal (AlternateShell), which allows the System to call the SHELL program specified by HKLM \ System \ CurrentControlSetSafeBoot \ AlternateShell without using the default Explorer.

/NOGUIBOOT: If the VGA driver is not loaded, the blue screen information during startup and failure is not displayed.

/BOOTLOG: Write logs to the Nnbtlog.txt file.

/BASEVIDEO: standard VGA boot mode. This mode is mainly used to display the failure of the driver.

/SOS: display the name of the driver when calling it. It is better to use it when it cannot be started due to driver problems.

With the above settings, we can easily set the Startup menu!