on bootup, I have to choose which MS OS

[FireBrick]

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

 

[Roberto le Corneille]

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

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

 

[FireBrick]

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.

 

[Rick Rogers]

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

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

 

[Roberto le Corneille]

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

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