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Title: windows 98 startup question
Post by: jam92102 on February 10, 2004, 01:33:34 am

Hi all.  I hope that I explain this well enough.  I'm running windows 98 in dos mode (not booting into the gui) and I boot straight into arcadeos.  My problem is right after the bios load screen it says starting windows 98 before it loads everything and boots into arcadeos.  Is it possible to type something different there or eliminate that all together?  I would really appreciate any input on this.

Title: Re:windows 98 startup question
Post by: Brad Lee on February 10, 2004, 08:55:26 am

If you mean the graphic blue/swirly screen, then check this thread http://www.arcadecontrols.org/yabbse/index.php?board=13;action=display;threadid=15438 (http://www.arcadecontrols.org/yabbse/index.php?board=13;action=display;threadid=15438) to replace that with some arcade startup screens.

THere is a way to remove it but I cant remember it offhand(some change in the registry)

If youre getting some text that says 'windows is now starting', then the way to change that would be to modify some of the core windows files with some good ol hex editing

Title: Re:windows 98 startup question
Post by: Spaced Invader on February 10, 2004, 09:09:32 am

This is everything you ever wanted to know about the windows 98 startup....

http://www.annoyances.org/exec/show/article02-011 (http://www.annoyances.org/exec/show/article02-011)

Title: Re:windows 98 startup question
Post by: Spaced Invader on February 10, 2004, 10:11:26 am

This is everything you ever wanted to know about the windows 98 startup....

http://www.annoyances.org/exec/show/article02-011 (http://www.annoyances.org/exec/show/article02-011)

Title: Re:windows 98 startup question
Post by: fredster on February 10, 2004, 12:51:39 pm

You can try and add this to the autoexec.bat
@echo off
cls

When autoexec.bat executes when bootgui = 0 in the msdos.sys file, your screen will go dark.

Title: Re:windows 98 startup question
Post by: jam92102 on February 10, 2004, 02:48:16 pm

Thanks for the help everyone.  I'll have to tinker with it.