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 [log in to unmask] 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:\ > The NOSPIN Group Promotions is now offering special "Free-After-Rebate" Software specials in conjunction with Beyond.com. We have new offers all the time!!! http://nospin.com/promotions