"DJW" wrote in message
...

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.)

--
Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)