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Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 16:09:48 +0000
From: Alvaro Lopes <alvieboy@alvie.com>
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CC: "Barry K. Nathan" <barryn@pobox.com>
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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