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ELIMINATING THE WINDOWS LOGO

The Windows logo screen that displays as you boot up can be disabled, if you wish. One reason for doing this is to enable you to see any messages displayed by real-mode drivers. In order to disable the logo, you have to do the following: start up an MS-DOS session. At the command prompt, go to the root directory by typing "CD\". Now remove the read-only and hidden attributes of the file MSDOS.SYS by typing "ATTRIB -R -H MSDOS.SYS". Then start up the MS-DOS Editor by typing "EDIT MSDOS.SYS" and look for a line that says LOGO=1 then change the value to 0 (zero). Exit the editor after saving the file, and then put back the read-only and hidden attributes of MSDOS.SYS by typing "ATTRIB +R +H MSDOS.SYS". Then type "exit" to get out of MS-DOS mode and test your modification by re-booting. You should now see a boot take place in text screen mode.