Click START and right click on MY COMPUTER

Select PROPERTIES

Select the ADVANCED tab

In the STARTUP AND RECOVERY section, click SETTINGS

In the SYSTEM STARTUP section, click EDIT, this will open the boot.ini file

You will see a line that looks similar to the one below

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS=”Microsoft Windows XP Professional” /fastdetect

To disable the Startup Screen change to line to read as below:

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS=”Microsoft Windows XP Professional” /fastdetect /sos

Close the file and SAVE the changes.