Installing XP Home

[Clayton]

I have just completed a installation of Windows XP Home (without service
pack) and on restart it gives me 2 options in the boot menu, one is XP Home
and the other is XP Whistler Personal, I have never seen this happen before?

Clayton

 

[Menno Hershberger]

I have just completed a installation of Windows XP Home (without
service pack) and on restart it gives me 2 options in the boot menu,
one is XP Home and the other is XP Whistler Personal, I have never
seen this happen before?

I had this on someone's computer before. If I clicked on the Whistler
option it errored out. So I edited boot.ini and removed the line referring
to Whistler. If that's what your symptoms are, then you can right click My
Computer, pick the Advanced tab, go down to Startup and Recovery and click
the "settings" button. In there you have the option of editing that line
out. You might want to make a backup of boot.ini (it's in the root
directory) before you edit it... just in case something goes wrong.

 

[Alex Nichol]

I had this on someone's computer before. If I clicked on the Whistler
option it errored out. So I edited boot.ini and removed the line referring
to Whistler. If that's what your symptoms are, then you can right click My
Computer, pick the Advanced tab, go down to Startup and Recovery and click
the "settings" button

Or - Start - Run - MSConfig.exe and on the Boot.ini page click Check All
Paths. That will identify the invalid one and offer to delete it.

Whistler Personal was a name used during development before the final
name XP Home was announced. How it has come to be on a machine when
installing with a legitimate XP CD, I can't say

 

[Clayton]

Strange

Or - Start - Run - MSConfig.exe and on the Boot.ini page click Check All
Paths. That will identify the invalid one and offer to delete it.

Whistler Personal was a name used during development before the final
name XP Home was announced. How it has come to be on a machine when
installing with a legitimate XP CD, I can't say