startup choice?

[Terry]

Recently clean installed XP Pro on laptop after long deliberations, but now
on the dos startup screen it gives me choice of 2 programs:
1) MS-WinXP pro
2) MS-Windows.

How may I byepass this screen to have XP Pro start all the time please?

TIA

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi,

Click start/run, type msconfig and click ok. Go to the boot.ini tab, click
the button to "check all boot paths". It should offer to remove the invalid
one.

If that fails, go to the Control Panel/System applet and click on the
advanced tab. Click on Startup and Recovery Settings, then on the edit
button. This will open boot.ini in notepad where you can remove the line
that references the WinXP Home system from the [operating systems] section.
You will probably also want to change the timeout= line to only 3, then
close saving changes.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

 

[Terry]

Thank You "Rick"...appreciated
Terry

Hi,

Click start/run, type msconfig and click ok. Go to the boot.ini tab, click
the button to "check all boot paths". It should offer to remove the invalid
one.

If that fails, go to the Control Panel/System applet and click on the
advanced tab. Click on Startup and Recovery Settings, then on the edit
button. This will open boot.ini in notepad where you can remove the line
that references the WinXP Home system from the [operating systems] section.
You will probably also want to change the timeout= line to only 3, then
close saving changes.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

Recently clean installed XP Pro on laptop after long deliberations, but
now
on the dos startup screen it gives me choice of 2 programs:
1) MS-WinXP pro
2) MS-Windows.

How may I byepass this screen to have XP Pro start all the time please?

TIA