How Do I Get Rid of Dual Boot Option in Vista

axel

axel

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Hi,

I have recently carried out a clean install of Vista Home Premium after problems with trying to recover XP.

All is well now except that I now get a dual boot option at start up which takes 30 seconds to default to Vista, unless I am sitting there and press enter.

XP is nowhere on my computer although I have 5Gb of unalllocated disk space on a separate partion where it once tried to recover, but I can live with that at the moment.

I can reduce the time out in msconfig to 3 seconds, but that takes me to "Selective Start Up" mode which is not recommended and is not really the answer.

This problem used to be edited out in win.ini or boot.ini, but I have read that these do not exist in Vista.

Any help would be appreciated.

Axel
 
Actually you dont need anything to get rid of it.

Right click My Computer / Properties / Advanced System Settings. Under Startup and Recovery click Settings and untick Time to display Operating Systems: make sure the right one is selected at the top (assuming vista). You could also achieve this editing the boot.ini file.

Boot.ini still exists but is hidden.

This is the proper way to get rid of the error. Wouldn't bother messing around with boot CD's as it's not needed.



M.
 
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