Disabling the Timer for Windows NT Boot Loader
Article ID: 131603
Article Last Modified on 2/20/2007
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Server
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional Edition
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server
- Microsoft Windows NT Advanced Server 3.1
- Microsoft Windows NT Server 3.5
- Microsoft Windows NT Server 3.51
- Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 3.1
- Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 3.5
- Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 3.51
- Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0 Developer Edition
- Microsoft Windows NT Advanced Server 3.1
This article was previously published under Q131603
SUMMARY
You can configure the Windows NT Boot Loader to pause indefinitely by
editing the BOOT.INI and changing timeout value to -1. The following
example shows the BOOT.INI after this change is made:
[boot loader]
timeout=-1
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT35
This change cannot be made through Control Panel, because the valid values
are 0-999. Any attempt to modify this value with a negative number
produces the following error in versions 3.5 and 3.51:
Invalid Timeout Entry
In Windows NT version 4.0, you will receive the following error:
Insufficient memory for this operation;
Close one or more windows applications to increase available memory
Additional query words: prodnt 3.10
Keywords: KB131603