Display start up Menu without pressing F8 on start up
By: Arie Slob
When you want to display the start up menu at the time you start Windows, you need to press F8. There is also a way of displaying it automatically:
- Use Explorer and find Msdos.sys in the root directory -- it is a hidden file (see Show all files to see how to show hidden files in Explorer)
- Make a copy of the Msdos.sys file in your TEMP directory, or any other directory. (just in case...)
- Right-click Msdos.sys and select Properties
- Uncheck the Read-only attribute
- Open a Msdos window (click Start > Programs > MS-DOS Prompt and type edit C:\Msdos.sys
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Under the [Options] section, type:
BootMenu=1
BootMenuDefault=1
BootMenuDelay=xx (where xx is the delay in seconds) - Save the file
- In Explorer right-click on Msdos.sys, select Properties and check the Read-only attribute
You can also use TweakUI (you can find it on your CD-ROM in the \tools\reskit\powertoy folder) to change these settings on the Boot tab.
