How to disable XP boot up screen

Posted on July 11, 2008 at 5:41 am

How many times do you find yourself staring mindlessly at the boot screen during Windows startup?  I couldn’t even estimate the total amount of time I have wasted staring at the flowing blue bar.  Here I will cover the steps to eliminate XP’s boot up screen.  Not only will it save you the pain of staring at Microsoft’s logo, but it may actually shave a bit of time off the booting process.

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In demonstrating this quick and simple tip, I am using XP Professional SP3.  First click Start >> Run and type in ‘msconfig’ (without the quotes) and click OK.

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The System Configuration Utility will open, now click on the BOOT.INI tab.  From the list under Boot Options place a check mark next to “NOGUIBOOT” and click OK.

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You will then be prompted to restart, and when you do the familiar XP boot up screen will be long gone!  This will only work for Windows XP.  You can check the No GUI Boot in Vista, however, the results will be quite different.

Written by Mysticgeek who is also a contributing author at How-To Geek.

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5 Responses to “How to disable XP boot up screen”

  1. nur said on : July 11th, 2008 at 9:14 am

    Is this ok for xp sp2 ?
    can this can cause a side effect like computer damage ?


  2. mysticgeek said on : July 11th, 2008 at 3:12 pm

    A nur:

    Yes this will work with XP SP 2 just fine. I mentioned the system configuration I use because many times people like to know that.


  3. nur said on : July 11th, 2008 at 10:01 pm

    ok, thanks man….!!!


  4. Windows said on : October 31st, 2008 at 1:57 am

    Nice tip.Thanks man.


  5. Russ said on : December 18th, 2008 at 8:23 pm

    After I do this I get a window that asks me if I want a normal start up or a selective start up which one should I choose?


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