START UP WITH CHOICES

Remember back in Windows 95, you saw a Starting Windows 95 message during the boot process, at which point you could press F8 to display the Startup menu? Well, watch your Windows 98 system's boot as closely as you want--you won't see any such message.

So how do you get to the Startup menu? After turning on your Windows 98 system, press and hold down the Ctrl key. Eventually, the Startup menu appears.

Would you like the Startup menu to appear automatically every time you start your system? You don't need to edit the msdos.sys file, as you did in Windows 95. Windows 98 made this setting change a whole lot easier.

Select Start, Run, type

msconfig

and press Enter to open the System Configuration Editor. On the General tab, click Advanced, select Enable Startup Menu, then click OK twice. Click Yes to restart your system (or No, if you'd prefer to do it later).

Of course, if you ever decide you don't want this menu at startup, just go back and deselect the same option

This page last updated:Monday, 24. May 1999 09:46:59 -0500