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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> 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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