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Just a trivial question about WinXP startup

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Adrian Tung

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Remember in Win2K, when you start up there's a progress bar that fills up at the bottom of the screen before the splash screen pops up, goes on a while and then it finally loads up the GUI and logon screen?

Well, when I installed WinXP a couple of months ago, that initial progress bar was no longer there so I thought, "hey cool, one less delay in the bootup process". However, recently I noticed that on my friend's computer, during bootup it still shows the progress bar before displaying the WinXP splash screen.

This is just a trivial thing, I guess, but I still like to know anyway. Both of us are running WinXP Pro, mine's an original OEM version but I'm not sure what version my friend has (could even be a corp. edn).


Thanks in advance,
🙂atwl
 
Maybe you have a proprietary splash-screen over the default BIOS/Win XP boot screen that is covering up the default M$ screen? Have you tried looking in the BIOS to see if you can turn it off? It may be called "quiet-boot" or something like that.
 
No, I'm using an Asus CUSL2-C mobo and I'm quite familiar with my BIOS settings, so I'm pretty sure I don't have such a thing enabled.


🙂atwl
 
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