Roger,

One other thing you might want to try...if you want the NT boot menu to stay on
your screen until YOU choose which OS to start, I believe you can change the
timeout to:

timeout=-1


Pam Leming
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On Fri, 21 Jul 2000 20:43:47 -0400, Bill Cohane <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>Roger Griffiths <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>I have Windows NT and '98 resident on my machine. The boot
>>process offers me the NT boot menu and if I don't select
>>'98 within 30 seconds the PC boots to NT by default. What
>>I want to know is - is it possible to change the default so
>>that it boots into '98 by default rather than NT.
>
>
>
>
>Hi Roger
>
>You can edit the file C:\boot.ini to change either the 30 second
>delay or the default operating system. (You will have to right
>click on boot.ini and remove the "Read-only" check mark from
>"Properties" before you can change its contents.)
>
>Lets open boot.ini using Notepad to see what's in the file.
>
>You might see the following lines in your boot.ini:
>
>[boot loader]
>timeout=30
>default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT
>[operating systems]
>multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Windows NT4 Workstation"
>C:\="Windows 98"
>
>Notice what follows "default" in the third line. You might change
>this line (using Notepad) to read:
>
>default=C:\
>

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