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REDUCE THE WINDOWS BOOT DELAY
Windows 9x by default pauses during boot for 2 seconds
waiting for you to press a startup key like F8 (which
will take you to the Startup Menu.) If you want to remove
this pause in order to make your boot faster, you can do
so this way: first, make sure your Explorer settings are
such that you can see hidden files. (Click on Tools in
the menu bar, select Folder Options, click on the View
tab, make sure that in the advanced settings list
"show all files" is checked on under Hidden
Files, and that "Hide file extensions for known file
types" is not checked on.) If all this is ok, then
you can see the hidden file Msdos.sys in your root
directory. This is part of the Windows registry, and
since it is really a text file, you can open it up and
edit it with Windows Notepad. What you have to do is
either change an existing statement in the [Options]
section or add a new one. The statement you should have
in this section:
BootDelay=0
