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Remove Operating System from Startup List

Discussion in 'Windows XP' started by wilon, 2010/01/22.

  1. 2010/01/22
    wilon

    wilon Inactive Thread Starter

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    Dear All,

    I have a parallell installation of Windows XP and always have to Operating Systems listed at startup, I need to get rid of one of the Operating system from startup list asap but cannot really recall how it is done. I will appreciate is anyone can advice me asap.

    Regards,
    Wilfred
     
    wilon,
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  2. 2010/01/22
    PeteC

    PeteC SuperGeek Staff

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    The safest way of achieving this is to ....

    Right Click on My Computer in Windows Explorer > Properties > Advanced > Startup and Recovery - Settings ....

    Select the default OS from the drop down list and - as a safeguard set the time to display a list of operating systems to, say, 3 secs and OK out and reboot.

    If the correct OS boots after 3 seconds you can return to the setting above and set it to 0 seconds.

    Alternatively you can edit the Boot.ini and remove the other OS from there.

    BTW - what's the hurry? :)
     
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