Removing Vista from boot selection

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Friend has windows xp installed on his laptop.
And he denies ever installing Vista, yet during boot up there is a choice, Vista or "Earlier version of Windows" (XP)

Vista is the default choice but doesn't work, says something about corrupt system. XP works fine.

Its a rush job, so all I want to do is remove the option, and have it automatically go to XP.
Since i can't get to Vista i can't change the startup from in there, and in XP all it lists is XP in "Startup and Recovery" options.

Any ideas.
 
I saw that program and it had a poor average rating on a download site so was looking for alternatives.

But you convinced me to try it, and it worked!

Thanks
 
Very easy to do.

Right Click My Computer
Select Properties
Click Advanced Tab
Startup and Recovery (click Settings under this heading)

At the top it says something like 'Time to display a list of operating systems' change this to 0 and job done.

You could edit that line out of the boot.ini file if you wanted to as well which would be just as easy.


M.
 
I am in a similar situation, i installed a beta of vista on a 2nd partition ages ago and therefore vista is controlling the boot opitons. I would like to just format my vista partition from within XP but am worried this might clear the boot settings and i wont be able to get into XP? Or would it automatically default back to XP's boot.ini once it cant find vistas?
 
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