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steve

while trying to fix some bugs in Windows 2000, I
accidently installed it on both C and D partitions of my
hard drive, instead of overwriting. I've deleted the
Windows folder from my D drive, but on startup, it's still
asking me to choose which Windows OS I want. How can I
get rid of that "choice" screen and just make it
automatically choose my C drive? Thanks.
 
First Control Panel|System|Advanced|Startup and Recovery, choose the correct
System Startup option as default, then you'll need to delete the options you
want removed from the boot.ini, it's a system, hidden file in the root of
the system partition. So you'll need to show-all-files in Explorer.
Explorer|Tools|Folder Options|View, then radio button for "Show hidden files
and folders" *and* also uncheck the box for "Hide protected operating system
files". You should end up with something like this (below). The timeout
value is not functional when there is only one startup choice.

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000
Professional" /fastdetect

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Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect

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| while trying to fix some bugs in Windows 2000, I
| accidently installed it on both C and D partitions of my
| hard drive, instead of overwriting. I've deleted the
| Windows folder from my D drive, but on startup, it's still
| asking me to choose which Windows OS I want. How can I
| get rid of that "choice" screen and just make it
| automatically choose my C drive? Thanks.
 
Dave:
that worked perfectly! thanks so much.

maybe you can help me with my other problem, too.
in IE6, if I try to read a pdf file, when I click, my
computer somehow defaults to an old Reader 3 program
instead of Read 6.0 and crashes. Yet, in "add & remove
programs", Reader 3 doesn't even show up! Where is my
computer finding the program? and how can I tell the
computer to use Reader 6.0 instead? Thanks.
 
Glad to hear it worked for you. You might want to just reinstall adobe
reader ver 6. This should take care of the registrations.

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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect

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| Dave:
| that worked perfectly! thanks so much.
|
| maybe you can help me with my other problem, too.
| in IE6, if I try to read a pdf file, when I click, my
| computer somehow defaults to an old Reader 3 program
| instead of Read 6.0 and crashes. Yet, in "add & remove
| programs", Reader 3 doesn't even show up! Where is my
| computer finding the program? and how can I tell the
| computer to use Reader 6.0 instead? Thanks.
 
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