Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 31 Jan 2003 16:09:48 +0000 | From | Alvaro Lopes <> | Subject | Re: Scaring the non-geeks (was Bootscreen) |
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Barry K. Nathan wrote:
>On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 07:53:03PM +0100, Lars 'Cebewee' Noschinski wrote: > > >>Till Windows Me, every Windows user got textmode messages at boot time. >>And they survived it. >> >> > >Most Win98 boxes (at least in my experience) don't show text-mode >message as boot either. Same for *all* of the (now rare) Win95 boxes >I've seen lately. > > FYI: If you press "ESC" during those SO's bootup, you'll get the text (actually I think you have to press it twice (one for pre-OS initial loading and other for until display adapter is reinitialized)).
Also there's an option if I recall in msdos.sys that will disable the M$W logo at bootup.
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