Pro or Home option on startup

[ilyaz]

My machine has Windows XP Home SP2 with all the updates. It was running
fine. However, for a few last days, when I boot it, instead of normal
opening, I'm getting a screen with two options - Win XP Home or
Professional. I have no Win XP Pro installed! What happened? How may I get
my machine back to a normal startup of WinXP Home? Thanks for your
suggestions.

 

[Shenan Stanley]

My machine has Windows XP Home SP2 with all the updates. It was
running fine. However, for a few last days, when I boot it, instead
of normal opening, I'm getting a screen with two options - Win XP
Home or Professional. I have no Win XP Pro installed! What
happened? How may I get my machine back to a normal startup of
WinXP Home? Thanks for your suggestions.

Edit the BOOT.INI...

That option did *not* appear randomly. Somehow it was put there. Either by
an installation or by manually editing the BOOT.INI. I suggest finding out
how.

Does the machine boot into EITHER OS?

(Google for "edit boot.ini in Windows XP" for more details.)

 

[Aditya Sinha]

Right Click on my computer >> Properties >> Advance >> Startup and RecoveryXP Home and give 1 assecond Time to display list of operating system

But do check who edited your boot.ini file.

 

[Ayush]

Click Start > Run
Type "msconfig" (Without quotes)
Go to Boot.ini tab
Click "Check all boot paths"
Follow the messages



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[ilyaz]

Thanks all for your suggestions. But the strange thing happened this
morning: the Win XP Home started as usual with no problem. Nevertheless, I
opened boot.ini and sure enough, the Pro was sitting on the last line...
Deleted it and hope it will never pop up again.
Thanks again for your help.
Ilya

Click Start > Run
Type "msconfig" (Without quotes)
Go to Boot.ini tab
Click "Check all boot paths"
Follow the messages



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Ayush [ Be ''?'' Happy ]

Search - www.Google.com | Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org
Snip your long urls - http://snipurl.com/

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My machine has Windows XP Home SP2 with all the updates. It was
running fine. However, for a few last days, when I boot it, instead
of normal opening, I'm getting a screen with two options - Win XP
Home or Professional. I have no Win XP Pro installed! What happened?
How may I get my machine back to a normal startup of WinXP Home?
Thanks for your suggestions.