pause before booting

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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
 
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
>
 
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
 
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 -
>
> - Show quoted text -

That was easy... And I have to say to myself... DUH!
 
You're welcome.

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Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect

"badamsios" wrote:
> That was easy... And I have to say to myself... DUH!
>
 
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