Wednesday, May 23, 2007

Don’t show boot screen when Windows starts

For those who don’t know what boot screen is, it’s a screen with the image of a window (if you haven’t changed it to some other image) that appears first when you start the computer. Many must be tired of looking at it all the time when turning on their PC’s. Some must have even wondered if they could just make it disappear for their screen. Your wish is my command and here is way you can do it. You might think that the procedure is very lengthy, annoying and too complex to do but it’s very simple. It’s the simplest anything could ever be. Here is how you do it:

1. Unhide all the hidden files and folders

2. Go to C: or whatever drive your OS is installed in

3. Open the file ‘boot.ini’ with notepad or wordpad

4. Search for the line ‘multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect’

5. think it’s the last line, add ‘/sos’ to it’s end

6. The new line should look something like this ‘multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect /sos’

7. Save the file and restart

Walla, the boot screen is gone and the login seems also a little fast. And don’t get worried if some black screen appears. It’s nothing; Windows just check its file system. Try it. It’s not even a bit risky.

6 comments:

Suicidal sam said...

ok..now that you have made a tutorial about how to remove boot screen............how to restore it back to what is was?

Suicidal sam said...

and also can u write a tweak about how to put custom bootscreen without using any software!!

rAzeEt said...

it's easy
the same way the boot screen is removed, same way it can be restored.
Just take out the "/sos" from the ‘multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect’ of the boot.ini file ,save the page and restart.

rAzeEt said...

sure .. i am also planning to give out tweak to put custom made boot screen.
Just wait some time. I'll provide it soon.

syarif said...

my customer laptop keep changes to no boot screen even i have change the setting..

i think when his computer shutdown, it doest "saving your setting".. how to enable this option?

pls reply at my blog

crazyguy said...

Reply to Syraf ;;
Not quite sure what you are asking ...please be clear...
If you are saying that the changes in the file 'boot.ini' is not saved after the restart then it might be due to viral infection or there is another way though ...
1. In the 'run' type 'msconfig' and enter (system configuration utility will open)
2. Click the BOOT.INI tab and then select the last option in the area (‘multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect’)
3. Check the '/SOS' check box which is in the bottom. Then click ok and restart..
This should probably do the thing for you