Start-up options

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Totally new build of XP Home.

At boot there is an option that says"

Pleas select operating system to start:

Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition 27, 26, 25 secs....
Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition


There is only one, ONE partition on the drive. There is no other CDs
present. I can only assume that Windows saw that CD in the drive & saw it
as another OS. =/


First question is how do I remove the option for the non-existent XP?
Second question is how to I lower the time from 30 secs to 5 secs or
eliminate this selection screen?

TIA
 
Go to Start > Run and type: MSCONFIG , and hit enter.
Click on the BOOT.INI tab and then click on "Check All Boot Paths"
to delete incorrect boot paths.

If the above does not work for you, then:

Right-click MY COMPUTER and select:

Properties > Advanced > Startup and Recovery Settings > Edit

CAREFULLY edit your boot.ini file to remove the SECOND entry.
Your boot.ini file should then read similar to this:

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

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User
Microsoft Newsgroups

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:

| Totally new build of XP Home.
|
| At boot there is an option that says"
|
| Pleas select operating system to start:
|
| Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition 27, 26, 25 secs....
| Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
|
| There is only one, ONE partition on the drive. There is no other CDs
| present. I can only assume that Windows saw that CD in the drive & saw it
| as another OS. =/
|
| First question is how do I remove the option for the non-existent XP?
| Second question is how to I lower the time from 30 secs to 5 secs or
| eliminate this selection screen?
|
| TIA
 
Carey Frisch said:
Go to Start > Run and type: MSCONFIG , and hit enter.
Click on the BOOT.INI tab and then click on "Check All Boot Paths"
to delete incorrect boot paths.

If the above does not work for you, then:

Right-click MY COMPUTER and select:

Properties > Advanced > Startup and Recovery Settings > Edit

CAREFULLY edit your boot.ini file to remove the SECOND entry.
Your boot.ini file should then read similar to this:

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

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User
Microsoft Newsgroups

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

:

| Totally new build of XP Home.
|
| At boot there is an option that says"
|
| Pleas select operating system to start:
|
| Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition 27, 26, 25 secs....
| Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
|
| There is only one, ONE partition on the drive. There is no other CDs
| present. I can only assume that Windows saw that CD in the drive & saw
it
| as another OS. =/
|
| First question is how do I remove the option for the non-existent XP?
| Second question is how to I lower the time from 30 secs to 5 secs or
| eliminate this selection screen?
|
| TIA
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THANKS!

All better now. =)
 
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