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Friday, January 20, 2012

Change Boot Menu Countdown Timer


When a system has more than 1 Operating Systems installed, it shows countdown timer to let you choose, which Operating System to boot. If you don't choose any of them within that time limit, system loads default Operating System.

If your computer has more than one operating system installed, you can change countdown timer at the boot menu to any number of seconds by editing the boot.ini file located in the boot partition
( Usually C:/boot.ini )
 Ex:- [boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(...
Changing "timeout=30" value to "timeout=5" will make the boot menu to appear for 5 seconds, the value can be anything between 0 and 999.

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