You can disable the Windows XP splash screen, but you should be aware that removing the splash screen will also cause you not to see any boot-up messages, such as chkdsk, but it should boot a little quicker also.
- Enter msconfig (Start, Run, msconfig)
- Select the "BOOT.INI" tab
- Click On the line that looks like multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(0)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect
Which should be highlighted by default, and check the "NOGUIBOOT" box.
If you need to go back, or have trouble, you can simply remove the new switch from your boot.ini file.
- Enter msconfig (Start, Run, msconfig)
- Select the "BOOT.INI" tab
- Click On the line that looks like multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(0)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect
Which should be highlighted by default, and check the "NOGUIBOOT" box.
If you need to go back, or have trouble, you can simply remove the new switch from your boot.ini file.
