RE: black screen on startup that says "select Microsoft XP Home Editio

Right click on my computer and select properties, then go to the advanced
tab. Near the bottom where it says Startup and Recovery click on the settings
button, uncheck the boxes in Time to display list of operating systems and
time to display recovery options. Should take care of that.

"AlaWis" wrote:

> I just purchased and installed Windows XP Home Edition with SP2 included on
> my son’s computer, a Compaq Presario 4000NX. It was a smooth installation
> with no problems. However, when I turn the computer on it boots up to a
> black screen that says this (or very close to this remark):
> Please select Microsoft XP Home Edition
> Please select Microsoft XP Home Edition
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> Use up and down arrows to move to highlight choice and then hit enter
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> Underneath that, a comment appears that says the highlighted selection will
> automatically be started in 30 seconds
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> At the bottom of the screen it says: For troubleshooting and advanced
> startup options for Windows, press F8
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> I would very much appreciate preventing this screen to appear, going
> directly to the familiar “Welcome” screen. I checked the knowledge base and
> couldn’t find any references to this. I saw one comment that "appeared" to
> apply to this on the newsgroup and it was because there are now so many
> different versions. I would still like for it to just load Windows without
> any input from me.
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> His computer ONLY has the new copy of Windows XP, just installed on a clean,
> formatted hard drive
> It is an Intel Celeron 2.40 GHz/400 MHz with 1 Gig PC2100 Ram, 2- 512 MB
> chips (DDR-SDRAM)
> 128 MB Cache Ram
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> Thank you in advance for your help.
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