Thing that flash by at startup are not always the same?

[DJW]

How come with a number of windows 98 machines I have no two have the
same thing coming up during the startup process? One just starts with
a windows cloud picture windows then goes black then returns before
finally I see the desktop. Another one has some screens of text on
black mixed in sequence with the windows 98 cloud picture screen. And
I also noticed that after months of a certain text on the screen one
day it had some different information in text coming up for a few days
then I guess it went back to the way it had been. All that text flies
by so fast is there a way to freeze it and be able to actually read
all of it?

 

[Don Phillipson]

Re: Thing that flash by at startup are not always the same?

"DJW" <ddwr@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> How come with a number of windows 98 machines I have no two have the
> same thing coming up during the startup process? . . . All that text
flies
> by so fast is there a way to freeze it and be able to actually read
> all of it?

Before Windows loads, the BIOS messages the
PC displays on screen can be halted and viewed
by the PAUSE button on your keyboard.

When Windows loads.
except only for the screen displays
"Windows is loading"
and/or
"Your settings are being updated,"
screen text is probably the contents of files
AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS, if they
exist and are not set @echooff. I.e. the
text (but not DOS responses, e.g. file not found)
can be read by any text editor. (And you can also
pipe DOS responses to another text file.)

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(Ottawa, Canada)

 

[Franc Zabkar]

Re: Thing that flash by at startup are not always the same?

On Sun, 9 Mar 2008 09:26:54 -0700 (PDT), DJW <ddwr@hotmail.com> put
finger to keyboard and composed:

>How come with a number of windows 98 machines I have no two have the
>same thing coming up during the startup process? One just starts with
>a windows cloud picture windows then goes black then returns before
>finally I see the desktop. Another one has some screens of text on
>black mixed in sequence with the windows 98 cloud picture screen. And
>I also noticed that after months of a certain text on the screen one
>day it had some different information in text coming up for a few days
>then I guess it went back to the way it had been. All that text flies
>by so fast is there a way to freeze it and be able to actually read
>all of it?

Go to Start > Run and type SYSEDIT. Then compare the contents of
autoexec.bat and config.sys between your machines.

- Franc Zabkar
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[dadiOH]

Re: Thing that flash by at startup are not always the same?

DJW wrote:
> How come with a number of windows 98 machines I have no two have the
> same thing coming up during the startup process? One just starts
> with a windows cloud picture windows then goes black then returns
> before finally I see the desktop. Another one has some screens of
> text on black mixed in sequence with the windows 98 cloud picture
> screen. And I also noticed that after months of a certain text on
> the screen one day it had some different information in text coming
> up for a few days then I guess it went back to the way it had been.

> All that text flies by so fast is there a way to freeze it and be
> able to actually read all of it?

Press the Break key.

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[AlmostBob]

Re: Thing that flash by at startup are not always the same?

Push escape during the redisplay of the boot image, will show the underlying
DOS screen and you can see the message

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"DJW" <ddwr@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:8cf99cc8-08e7-4e65-bf1f-8f4c4ad70af1@p25g2000hsf.googlegroups.com...
> How come with a number of windows 98 machines I have no two have the
> same thing coming up during the startup process? One just starts with
> a windows cloud picture windows then goes black then returns before
> finally I see the desktop. Another one has some screens of text on
> black mixed in sequence with the windows 98 cloud picture screen. And
> I also noticed that after months of a certain text on the screen one
> day it had some different information in text coming up for a few days
> then I guess it went back to the way it had been. All that text flies
> by so fast is there a way to freeze it and be able to actually read
> all of it?

 

[mm]

Re: Thing that flash by at startup are not always the same?

On Sun, 9 Mar 2008 09:26:54 -0700 (PDT), DJW <ddwr@hotmail.com> wrote:

>How come with a number of windows 98 machines I have no two have the
>same thing coming up during the startup process? One just starts with
>a windows cloud picture windows then goes black then returns before
>finally I see the desktop. Another one has some screens of text on
>black mixed in sequence with the windows 98 cloud picture screen. And
>I also noticed that after months of a certain text on the screen one
>day it had some different information in text coming up for a few days
>then I guess it went back to the way it had been. All that text flies
>by so fast is there a way to freeze it and be able to actually read
>all of it?

When processors were slower, it was easier to read a bit. When they
were much slower it was even easier.

With any fast moving thing, blinking ones eyes repeatedly is a way to
stop the action. Of course you miss the parts that go by when your
eyes are closed, but at least you may be able to read the parts that
are there when your eyes are open!!

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