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Maybe your computer has Windows 9X and Windows XP coexisting. Users can completely reduce the time when the Windows XP operating system is displayed in the operating system list during startup. Please click "Start" → "Run", enter "msconfig" to open the "System Configuration Utility" → "BOOT.INI", and change the timeout setting to the time you want. If you are a loyal user of the Windows XP operating system, the author suggests that you can completely set the startup waiting time to 5 seconds. Or right-click "My Computer" → "Properties" → "Advanced", click "Settings" in "Startup and Recovery", you can set the time to display the operating system list, and click "Edit" to manually edit the startup options, change timeout=30 to timeout=5.

Can the above modification method be implemented with code or the registry

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[ Last edited by HAT on 2008-9-27 at 12:19 ]

timeout=30 is actually in C:\boot.ini and has nothing to do with the registry. How to change it? There is another way, in XP CMD, bootcfg /timeout 5

Hehe, didn't notice, strong.

There are many tutorials, the original poster search it.

You learn enough in a lifetime.

bootcfg is wonderful

Thanks! Super practical! If you only modify one machine, it won't work, but if you need to modify multiple machines, just double-click!

for /f "delims=" %%a in (bootini) do (@echo %%a | find /i /v "time" >>boot.ini|| @echo timeout=5 >>boot.ini)
The landlord can try this. I used it when I originally installed the second system for XP. After removing the timeout line in boot.ini, add timeout=5.

c:
cd\
if exist bootini attrib bootini -s -h -r & del bootini /q
attrib boot.ini -s -h -r
ren boot.ini bootini
for /f "delims=" %%a in (bootini) do (@echo %%a | find /i /v "time" >>boot.ini|| @echo timeout=3 >>boot.ini)
echo C:\GRLDR="Start GRUB" >>boot.ini
attrib boot.ini +s +r +h
del boot.bat

The last sentence is used to delete itself

[ Last edited by wubozh on 2008-3-5 at 04:56 PM ]

Learned!
But using BOOTCFG /TIMEOUT 3 is much faster

This is an automatic installation batch script I made for installing the DOS system with GRUB on XP. It uses the script function of WinRAR. Besides changing timeout=30 to 3, it also needs to add the call command for the DOS system after boot.ini: echo C:\GRLDR="Start GRUB" >>boot.ini. In this case, bootcfg=5 cannot be realized. If it's just to change the waiting time to 3, indeed yours is more convenient.