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title: "What does BOOT.INI do?"  
description: "What does BOOT.INI do?"  
author: "Mukul Goenka"  
published: 2022-04-20  
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category: "troubleshooting"  
tags: ["troubleshooting", "computers", "computer maintenance"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# What does BOOT.INI do?

What does BOOT.INI do?

## Answers

### Answer by Hitesh Vohra

- The **Boot.ini** file is a text file that includes the boot settings for computers running NT-based operating systems prior to Windows Vista that have BIOS firmware. It is usually found at the root of the system partition, c:. Boot.ini. The contents of a typical Boot.ini file are shown in the sample below.
- Option settings for all boot entries on the system are found in the [boot loader] section. Timeout, the boot menu time-out setting, and default, the default operating system location, are among the options.
- Each operating system or bootable programme installed on the computer has one or more boot entries in the [operating systems] section.

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