Windows 9x

[Confused]

To get to a command prompt while bootingin Windows 9x, hold down the ___ key.
Then select Command prompt only from the startup menu.

 

[RobertVA]

Confused wrote:
> To get to a command prompt while bootingin Windows 9x, hold down the ___ key.
> Then select Command prompt only from the startup menu.

I usually use the F8 key myself.

 

[Roxana]

"RobertVA" <robert_c72athotmail@invalid.com> wrote in message
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> Confused wrote:
> > To get to a command prompt while bootingin Windows 9x, hold down the ___
key.
> > Then select Command prompt only from the startup menu.
>
> I usually use the F8 key myself.

By tapping it repeatedly from POST, - almost but not quite - to the end of
POST.

 

[PCR]

Confused wrote:
| To get to a command prompt while bootingin Windows 9x, hold down the
| ___ key. Then select Command prompt only from the startup menu.

You may continually press F8 during boot, or just hold in the CTRL key
during boot to get the Startup Menu. But, REALLY, it is best to...

(a) "START button, Run, MSConfig, Advanced button".
(b) Check... "Enable Startup Menu".

Doing it that way puts up the menu at boot with a 30 second timer for it
to default to a boot to Windows. Hit the ENTER key for it to resume the
boot immediately. Hit any other key for it to wait forever for a choice.
It's possible to adjust the delay by editing MSDOS.sys.


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[Paradoxdb3]

If I remember correctly, TweakUI also has an option to set the length of time
it waits before loading Windows.

"PCR" wrote:

> Confused wrote:
> | To get to a command prompt while bootingin Windows 9x, hold down the
> | ___ key. Then select Command prompt only from the startup menu.
>
> You may continually press F8 during boot, or just hold in the CTRL key
> during boot to get the Startup Menu. But, REALLY, it is best to...
>
> (a) "START button, Run, MSConfig, Advanced button".
> (b) Check... "Enable Startup Menu".
>
> Doing it that way puts up the menu at boot with a 30 second timer for it
> to default to a boot to Windows. Hit the ENTER key for it to resume the
> boot immediately. Hit any other key for it to wait forever for a choice.
> It's possible to adjust the delay by editing MSDOS.sys.
>
>
> --
> Thanks or Good Luck,
> There may be humor in this post, and,
> Naturally, you will not sue,
> Should things get worse after this,
> PCR
> pcrrcp@netzero.net
>
>
>

 

[PCR]

Paradoxdb3 wrote:
| If I remember correctly, TweakUI also has an option to set the length
| of time it waits before loading Windows.

It may be so. It's an important file. To do it manually, one may open it
in Notepad, & carefully change the following line to the desired
value...

BootMenuDelay=10

...., which thanatoid has said only a slowpoke would want to be higher
than 5! Here is more...

Here is a way to edit MSDOS.sys. This is an important file.

(1) You won't even see it, unless...
"START button, Settings, Folder Options, View tab"
...is bolted "Show all files" uncheck "Hide file extensions..."
too.
(2) Find "C:\MSDOS.sys" and back it up.
Call the backup MSDOS.bck, in C:\.
(3) Then, R-Clk "C:\MSDOS.sys", Properties, and uncheck Read-Only.

(4) Open it in Notepad, &
(a) Set that "BootMenuDelay=" to the desired value
(b) Save it & Exit Notepad

(5) Then, R-Clk MSDOS.sys again, and make it Read-Only. Reboot.
(6) Can't reboot? Then, in DOS, copy the backup over the one you've
mussed...
(a) ATTRIB -R -S -H C:\MSDOS.sys
(b) COPY C:\MSDOS.bck C:\MSDOS.sys
(c) ATTRIB +R +S +H C:\MSDOS.sys

NOTE: If you have a "C:\Winboot.ini", it will override MSDOS.sys,
though. So, check for that too. It has the same format/instruction set
as the other.

| "PCR" wrote:
|
|> Confused wrote:
|> | To get to a command prompt while bootingin Windows 9x, hold down
|> | the ___ key. Then select Command prompt only from the startup
|> | menu.
|>
|> You may continually press F8 during boot, or just hold in the CTRL
|> key during boot to get the Startup Menu. But, REALLY, it is best
|> to...
|>
|> (a) "START button, Run, MSConfig, Advanced button".
|> (b) Check... "Enable Startup Menu".
|>
|> Doing it that way puts up the menu at boot with a 30 second timer
|> for it to default to a boot to Windows. Hit the ENTER key for it to
|> resume the boot immediately. Hit any other key for it to wait
|> forever for a choice. It's possible to adjust the delay by editing
|> MSDOS.sys.
|>
|>
|> --
|> Thanks or Good Luck,
|> There may be humor in this post, and,
|> Naturally, you will not sue,
|> Should things get worse after this,
|> PCR
|> pcrrcp@netzero.net

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Thanks or Good Luck,
There may be humor in this post, and,
Naturally, you will not sue,
Should things get worse after this,
PCR
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