From Colman Ezkovich
Paul:
When I said all else is as it should be, I meant that bootmenu=1 was
already there. My delay was set at six seconds. There is something
that keeps the menu from showing, but it is obviously there as it
responds to key movement. There must be something somewhere causing
this. If I set FreshUI to Always show boot menu it never works. If I
add allow F8 etc to work, I sometimes get the menu. And if not I get
the static lines which obviously represent the menu because of key
movement. I'm about ready to give up.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul A. Shippert" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2005 10:06 AM
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] Start up


: Greetings Colman, et. al.--
:
: Edit msdos.sys to add the following two lines at the bottom of the
file:
: BootMenu=1
: BootMenuDelay=10.
: Save the file and (if you like) attribute it hidden and read-only.
:
: When you reboot you should have the boot menu displayed for 10
seconds.
:
: It is possible that FreshUI may have muddied the waters some. I
changed some
: settings with the XP version of it and on shutdown I now receive
several "This program is not responding ...." messages that I did not
receive before...Now, if I can just remember which settings I changed,
so I can change them back...
:
: Good luck,
:
: Paul A. Shippert
: Library Media Specialist
: Margaret Brent Middle School
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: -------------- Original message --------------
:
: > I have a problem using Windows ME . I am unable to get a boot menu
: > either with F8 or all the time. I have used several programs to
change
: > the way windows boots but it works only some time. Msconfig shows
that
: > menu is enabled. MSDOS.sys has the following entry: [Options]
: > BootGUI=0 AutoScan=1. All else is as it should be.
: > Could BOOT GUI be a problem? I use Fresh UI to make changes in the
way
: > Windows boots. I have set it to show menu on boot. but it works
only
: > some times ( screen has horizontal static type lines). When the
static
: > lines start I can hit return to start booting or hit the down
arrow
: > twice then hit return to go into safe mode. When setting to boot
: > normally, there is never a problem. When setting to enable F8 it
just
: > does not work. Any ideas?
: >
: > Colman Ezkovich
: >
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