Windows XP Boot Screen Bypass?

[StriderZero]

I'm looking for a way to disable the windows boot screen during login. I know the way by altering the boot.ini file and disabling the gui. However I would like, instead of the gui or a black screen, to be able to see my files loading on the screen, much like the same way that it shows when booting in safe mode. Purpose is partially for appearance and partially to monitor what end-user files are loading in a normal boot. Any help would be much appreciated.

 

[bcastner]

Add:

/sos /noguiboot

To the startup entry in boot.ini. E.g.

[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Windows XP" /fastdetect /sos /noguiboot


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[linney]

Apart from the limited options in the Bios, and Safe Mode with boot logging enabled, this is all there is.

833721 - Available switch options for the Windows XP and the Windows Server 2003 Boot.ini files

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;833721&FR=1&PA=1&SD=HSCH