I have just managed to get XP (& SP2) on my Fujitsu Amilo laptop using
a recovery CD and an external CD drive after it was cabbaged by some
viruses - I've belatedly installed AVG - but when starting up, there
is a freeze on the screen that invites me to press F2 or F12, for Bios
and so on, which I can get out of by pressing esc or sometimes that
and a random bunch of keys.

Then I get a screen asking me to choose between 2 Windows Home
Editions; I had to manually remove the second one but I imagine there
is some kind of system file which I merely have to change or delete a
line within. Can someone steer me to the right place and tell me
what needs changing, or otherwise help, so that the system will run
unprompted and uncajoled to the desktop stage

I didn't wipe the hard drive and start from there, but everything else
is very satisfactory now even if I may have a few duplicate files
lying around from other User Accounts, etc and System Restores, etc.

Thanks in advance.

Editing the boot.ini file will remove the other entry. start/run, type:
sysdm.cpl
Advanced tab, startup and recovery area, settings button, Edit button.
be sure 'default=...' is set right, and then use notepads Format menu to be
sure 'word wrap' is off, then remove the unwanted line in [operating
systems] .


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Mark L. Ferguson

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"kplumm" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>I have just managed to get XP (& SP2) on my Fujitsu Amilo laptop using
> a recovery CD and an external CD drive after it was cabbaged by some
> viruses - I've belatedly installed AVG - but when starting up, there
> is a freeze on the screen that invites me to press F2 or F12, for Bios
> and so on, which I can get out of by pressing esc or sometimes that
> and a random bunch of keys.
>
> Then I get a screen asking me to choose between 2 Windows Home
> Editions; I had to manually remove the second one but I imagine there
> is some kind of system file which I merely have to change or delete a
> line within. Can someone steer me to the right place and tell me
> what needs changing, or otherwise help, so that the system will run
> unprompted and uncajoled to the desktop stage
>
> I didn't wipe the hard drive and start from there, but everything else
> is very satisfactory now even if I may have a few duplicate files
> lying around from other User Accounts, etc and System Restores, etc.
>
> Thanks in advance.