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Old 07-24-2008, 08:51 PM
FireBrick
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on bootup, I have to choose which MS OS

Vista Home Premium
upon boot up I get a screen that has me select which Windows operating
system I want.

It offers 3 choices
previous OS
Windows Vista
Windows XP

How to I stop this so it automatically starts Vista Home Premium?

please and thank you


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Old 07-25-2008, 01:10 AM
Roberto le Corneille
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Re: on bootup, I have to choose which MS OS


"FireBrick" <w9ol@billnjudy.com> wrote in message
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> Vista Home Premium
> upon boot up I get a screen that has me select which Windows operating
> system I want.
>
> It offers 3 choices
> previous OS
> Windows Vista
> Windows XP
>
> How to I stop this so it automatically starts Vista Home Premium?
>
> please and thank you[/color]

More info is required - do you have XP and some other OS on the
primary HDD , or did you upgrade from XP to Vista ?.
Best to "tell all " no one here uses Chrystal balls much these days,
they are too unreliable.

rgds
Roberto

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Old 07-25-2008, 03:20 AM
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Re: on bootup, I have to choose which MS OS

Sorry
Yes, I did an upgrade from XP.

I chose the 'upgrade' option instead of the 'clean install' option.

so how do I remove those old OS

please and thank you.
"Roberto le Corneille" <whoist@nospam.net> wrote in message
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>
> "FireBrick" <w9ol@billnjudy.com> wrote in message
> news:udF$1lg7IHA.3624@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...[color=green]
>> Vista Home Premium
>> upon boot up I get a screen that has me select which Windows operating
>> system I want.
>>
>> It offers 3 choices
>> previous OS
>> Windows Vista
>> Windows XP
>>
>> How to I stop this so it automatically starts Vista Home Premium?
>>
>> please and thank you[/color]
>
> More info is required - do you have XP and some other OS on the
> primary HDD , or did you upgrade from XP to Vista ?.
> Best to "tell all " no one here uses Chrystal balls much these
> days, they are too unreliable.
>
> rgds
> Roberto
>[/color]


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Old 07-25-2008, 04:40 AM
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Re: on bootup, I have to choose which MS OS

Hi,

Click start, type msconfig and hit <enter> to open the system configuration
utility. Go to the boot tab, select the unwanted entries and click on
delete.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
[url]http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/[/url]
Windows help - [url]www.rickrogers.org[/url]
My thoughts [url]http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com[/url]

"FireBrick" <w9ol@billnjudy.com> wrote in message
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> Vista Home Premium
> upon boot up I get a screen that has me select which Windows operating
> system I want.
>
> It offers 3 choices
> previous OS
> Windows Vista
> Windows XP
>
> How to I stop this so it automatically starts Vista Home Premium?
>
> please and thank you
>
>[/color]

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Old 07-25-2008, 04:40 AM
Roberto le Corneille
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Re: on bootup, I have to choose which MS OS


"FireBrick" <w9ol@billnjudy.com> wrote in message
news:uR8gJAk7IHA.3624@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...[color=blue]
> Sorry
> Yes, I did an upgrade from XP.
>
> I chose the 'upgrade' option instead of the 'clean install' option.
>
> so how do I remove those old OS[/color]

You can reduce the timeout to choose which OS to boot to to 0
[zero] effectively not displaying that screen by doing this:
In Vista, right-click Computer, and then choose Properties from the pop-up
menu. Next, click Advanced System Settings and then click the Startup And
Recovery Settings button. This displays the Startup And Recovery window,
where you can select the default OS [Vista in this case] then change the
length of time the Boot Menu appears. Set it to 0 [zero] and you're good to
go

rgds
Roberto
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> please and thank you.
> "Roberto le Corneille" <whoist@nospam.net> wrote in message
> news:eyYKEti7IHA.4112@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...[color=green]
>>
>> "FireBrick" <w9ol@billnjudy.com> wrote in message
>> news:udF$1lg7IHA.3624@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...[color=darkred]
>>> Vista Home Premium
>>> upon boot up I get a screen that has me select which Windows operating
>>> system I want.
>>>
>>> It offers 3 choices
>>> previous OS
>>> Windows Vista
>>> Windows XP
>>>
>>> How to I stop this so it automatically starts Vista Home Premium?
>>>
>>> please and thank you[/color]
>>
>> More info is required - do you have XP and some other OS on the
>> primary HDD , or did you upgrade from XP to Vista ?.
>> Best to "tell all " no one here uses Chrystal balls much these
>> days, they are too unreliable.
>>
>> rgds
>> Roberto
>>[/color]
>
>[/color]

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