I reformatted my hard drive that originally had XP Home Edition. I
installed XP Professional. When the computer boots, it asks me to pick
an OS. I want it to automatically boot to XP Pro. How do I change
this, so the OS choice screen does not come up? Thanks
Are you sure you formatted the hard drive partition that housed XP Home?
That should have removed XP Home (and everything else on the partition).
After doing that and installing XP Pro, XP Pro should be the only operating
system present.
Check your system a little closer. You need find out if you have one
version of Windows installed or two. If two, are they on separate hard
drives or on the same hard drive? If both on the same hard drive, you wll
have two Windows folders (one of them named slightly different) and this
can cause trouble down the road.
If you have created a dual boot (XP Home on one partition, XP Pro on
another), is that what you indended to do? How do you want to change it?
Meanwhile, use System Properties> Advanced> Startup and Recovery> Settings.
Select the version of Windows that you prefer to use. Reduce the boot
option time to zero. Click OK.
