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The windows splash screen looks quite elegant as you
boot up your machine but, at the same time, it does hide valuable information.
Beneath this superficial cover a host of other things are going on which are
invisible to the user. As each and every action XP undertakes the detail is
recorded on the screen beneath the Windows Splash Screen. If you feel you want
to know what drivers are being loaded and everything else that is happening
during the loading of XP you can easily disable the Windows Splash Screen.
1/ Click the Start button
2/ From the Start menu Right Click MY Computer
3/ From the drop down menu select Properties
4/ In the My Computer Properties Windows click the
Advanced Tab
5/ From the Advanced tab click the Settings button
in the section marked 'Startup and Recovery'
6/ Once the Startup and Recovery window has opened
click the Edit button
7/ A copy of your Boot ini file will now open in
notepad
8/ Take a look at the contents of the boot ini
file and you should see a line which looks like this:
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional"
/fastdetect
9/ To the end of this line add the following /SOS
10/ The line should now look like this:
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional"
/fastdetect /SOS
11/ Now go to File on the main notepad toolbar
and click Save to save your changes
12 Close Notepad and Exit the other open
windows
13/ When you restart your PC you will simply see a list
of drivers etc as they load. The splash screen will no longer be visible
14/ To re-enable the splash screen follow the
instructions above and remove the / SOS switch
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