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Disable the boot screen

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Time Required: 1 Minute, 5 Minutes, 10 Minutes, 15 Minutes

Notes: This is a nice way to speed up your boot time.

Warnings: This is dangerous if you do not know what you are doing. I do not take responsibility for anything that you do to your computer that harms it or any files on it in any way.

Written By: Max Feinstein

How to do it:

  • Click on Start and right-click "My Computer".
  • Click "Properties".
  • Click on the "Advanced" tab.
  • In the "Startup and Recovery" box, click "Settings".
  • In the "System Startup" box, click "Edit".
  • On the end of the line with Windows XP in it, add "/sos".
  • Your line should like similar to the following (although it may not be quite the same):
  • multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition" /fastdetect /sos
  • Go to File > Save (Click on Save).
  • Go to File > Exit (Click on Exit).
  • Click OK.
  • Click OK.

  

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