booting xp home

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when I boot xp home, I just installed it, I use to have 98 but I formatted it
and got it ready for xp, for some odd reason when I boot I get a message
saying "select OS to start" and gives an option for xp home or previous OS on
c:, it defaults to xp but waits 30 sec to start, I dont have a prev OS and I
want it just to boot right to xp and not have this screen even pop up. Any
help is appreciated, thanks
 
You are seeing the boot menu. The quickest thing to do is go to control
panel and click the System icon. In the system properties window click the
advanced tab. In the Settings and recovery section you will see a button
marked 'settings' click this button. The startup and recovery window will
now open. In the system startup section remove the tick mark from the 'time
to display list of operating systems' option. Press OK. In the next windows
click Apply and then click OK to exit. Now reboot yuor machine. Your pc
should now boot straight to windows xp.
 
Thank you very much!

John Barnett MVP said:
You are seeing the boot menu. The quickest thing to do is go to control
panel and click the System icon. In the system properties window click the
advanced tab. In the Settings and recovery section you will see a button
marked 'settings' click this button. The startup and recovery window will
now open. In the system startup section remove the tick mark from the 'time
to display list of operating systems' option. Press OK. In the next windows
click Apply and then click OK to exit. Now reboot yuor machine. Your pc
should now boot straight to windows xp.
Click to expand...
 
msconfiYou can also click the edit button and remove the reference to "98 by
highlighting it and right click\delete. Another method you can try to see if
XP will remove it for you is to click start\run and type in msconfig and
click ok. Now click the boot.ini tab and then click the "check all boot
paths" button and see if it detects a none standard boot option and prompts
you to remove it. TTFN.
 
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