pause before booting

[Guest badamsios]

I need to pause windows 2k3 from booting up for 5 minutes. There must

be a parameter I can put in the boot.ini but so far I can't find the

right keywords for google. how to?

 

Badamsios

[Guest Dave Patrick]

Re: pause before booting

 

Change the timeout value in boot.ini to 300

 

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"badamsios" wrote:

>I need to pause windows 2k3 from booting up for 5 minutes. There must

> be a parameter I can put in the boot.ini but so far I can't find the

> right keywords for google. how to?

>

> Badamsios

>

[Guest neogeo.au@gmail.com]

Re: pause before booting

 

In the boot.ini

 

change

 

timeout=30

to

timeout=300

 

This is 5 minutes.

 

Under the [operating systems], copy the first line to the second, this

way no matter what selection you use, you will always boot the OS.

 

On Jul 9, 9:21 am, badamsios <b...@brianandmaryadams.com> wrote:

> I need to pause windows 2k3 from booting up for 5 minutes. There must

> be a parameter I can put in the boot.ini but so far I can't find the

> right keywords for google. how to?

>

> Badamsios

[Guest badamsios]

Re: pause before booting

 

On Jul 8, 5:37 pm, "Dave Patrick" <DSPatr...@nospam.gmail.com> wrote:

> Change the timeout value in boot.ini to 300

>

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>

> Regards,

>

> Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.

> Microsoft Certified Professional

> Microsoft MVP [Windows]http://www.microsoft.com/protect

>

>

>

> "badamsios" wrote:

> >I need to pause windows 2k3 from booting up for 5 minutes. There must

> > be a parameter I can put in the boot.ini but so far I can't find the

> > right keywords for google. how to?

>

> >Badamsios- Hide quoted text -

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That was easy... And I have to say to myself... DUH!

[Guest Dave Patrick]

Re: pause before booting

 

You're welcome.

 

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Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.

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"badamsios" wrote:

> That was easy... And I have to say to myself... DUH!

>