Comments on: Custom Boot Menu in Windows XP

By: AskApache

AskApache — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 12:21:29 +0000

@zach

No idea zach sorry. You can always do this in linux.. and on a dual-boot you could load linux and run anti-virus on a mounted NTFS partition.

By: zach

zach — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 04:29:58 +0000

Hi. I have a simple question. IS there a way to get XP to boot to command line only without ANY of the GUI or higher functions going? I want to run programs that run from command line and that do not require any of the higher GUI and other things, just basic disk access and memory management type stuff. System utilities like disk optimizers and anti-virus scanners, malware scanners, etc. If so, how do you force this? Please help…

Many thanks!

By: Jim Lindbloom

Jim Lindbloom — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 21:29:28 +0000

After a custom build and XP install I added the Recovery Console. However …. NOW I see a 3rd line entry in the boot menu that says (default) and if you do not move it off that and up to XP Home or the Recovery Console it just crashes … that is, it continues after the timeout and comes up with an error message and halts loading. How this 3rd line got there I have NO CLUE! When I edit the boot.ini there IS NO 3RD Line!! So I have NO idea how it gets there .. I’m clueless. So if you add to your great article please put in a fix for this … hint hint!!

By: Domain Registrar

Domain Registrar — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 02:39:43 +0000

Thanks for this great information. I was needing some boot information to accompany my dual boot PC. I am dual booting Vista and XP because Vista is simply not “ready” enough for me yet.

As a response to Frank, this is not bad information at all. Many times when people try to access their boot menu, they receive a keyboard failure popup or with many factory PCs they don’t use F8 and you have to do a little research.

By: LKP

LKP — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 16:56:24 +0000

Good article indeed.

As said, “the way to do it” is something that is appreciated. And the most important thing is that is all in one page, I mean, all that content you can find on the net, but commonly is spreaded in a several pages, so, one access point to all that info isn’t bad at all.

As for the flammers, well, I guess that you never try to use the regedit to change a feature/option just because you can do it with a few clicks, so, you really doesn’t care much about computing related topics or even learn something from then, c’mon, there are alot of places/forums/irc/chat where you can flame more properly :)

Regards

By: Josh

Josh — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 05:22:57 +0000

Good article, all the people with negative comments obviously are a$$holes. Well written article, I personally have had a custom boot menu for quite a while, allowing me to boot between Windows XP, Windows 98, and Ubuntu (yes you can in fact use the WINDOZE boot.ini to boot Ubuntu). Anyways I found this article helpful as it lists various attributes such as /sos which I found quite helpful. Thanks.