Windows boot screen; help needed

[j_to_da_t]

Everytime I boot my PC up it gives me an option of which OS I want to start: Win XP or Win XP...?
I am positive there is only one version of windows installed as I only have one HD installed at the moment, and I did a clean install of XP last week, doing a full format of the drive in the process.

Can anyone tell me why it insists on doing this? (it has been as ongoing problem throughout several different installations of XP)
Or maybe someone can tell me a way to skip this screen, or at least reduce the 30secs wait time before it automatically boots the selected option.
Another weird problem is that my keyboard doesn't work during this boot screen anyway, so I have to plug in another keyboard into the PS/2 socket...

Anyone? Please?

 

[|Ric|]

Right click on My Computer
Advanced tab
Startup and recovery -> Settings
"Time to display list of operating systems" set it a bit lower

If you click edit you can edit the boot loader and remove the extra version of xp. but be careful, if you delete the wrong one you won't be able to boot without repairing it off the xp cd.

My boot.ini looks like:

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect

So basically you only want one operating system listed under [operating systems]
They should be ordered the same as when you get the choice so if you select the first of the 2 choices then this should be the first operating system listed
If of course they both are exactly the same it should be safe to remove one of them without any worries

 

[j_to_da_t]

Nice one, cheers for that! Will give it a go...