Disable the Windows XP Startup Screen

If you want to see what goes behind the Windows Startup Screen, you have to disable the 

Windows boot screen. 

• Right click “My Computer”.
•  Select “Properties”. 
• Select the 
  “Advanced” tab. 
• In the “Startup and Recovery” section, click “Settings”. 
• In the “System 
  Startup” section .
• Click Edit to open the boot.ini file in Notepad. 
• You will see a line that looks 
  similar to the one below: M
  ulti(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" 
  /fastdetect 
• To disable the Startup Screen, change the line as below: 
  
  
  multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" 
  /fastdetect /sos. 
• Note that there is a space between 'fastdetect' and '/sos'. 
• Close Notepad, click 
  Yes when Notepad asks if you want to save your changes. 
• Exit System Properties. 
• Reboot 
  computer and the Startup Screen will be gone. 

NOTE :- Take the backup of your registry (by one of these Software's) before doing any tweak.