Can anyone pls help on how to remove multiple boot options, my system requires that i select either Microsoft Windows XP or Microsoft Widows XP setup while booting, if i don't select any option in 10 sec. it automatically boots int Microsoft XP settings Page. I need to knw how to make it boot straight to Windows without showing the setup option!

Right click on My Computer, and select Properties. Now click on the Advanced tab. In a section labeled Startup and Recovery click on the button labeled Settings. You should now be looking at a dialog like this:

Startup and Recovery options

Click on Edit to edit the startup options file (aka boot.ini) manually. That should open Notepad with something similar to the following from my machine:

[boot loader]
timeout=5
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptOut
C:\CMDCONS\BOOTSECT.DAT="Microsoft Windows Recovery Console" /cmdcons

In this example, you can see that I have two options to choose from when I boot: Windows XP, and the Recovery Console. I'm guessing you have an additional line for the XP Pro Setup that you had trouble with it. You can simply delete that line.

And if you're tired of having the computer wait 30 seconds for you to choose an operating system, you can also change the timeout value, as I have in my example.

Save that file, and when you next reboot you should no longer have that additional option.

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Removing Multiple Boot Options
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Can anyone pls help on how to remove multiple boot options, my system requires that i select either Microsoft Windows XP or Microsoft Widows XP setup while booting, if i don't select any option in 10 sec. it automatically boots int Microsoft XP settings Page. I need to knw how to make it boot straight to Windows without showing the setup option!

I cant learn anything from that. The easiest thing is to tell us what's on screen. most likely is displaying the advance option safe mode etc

Or Microsoft Windows XP or Home Edition I think. Good luck and thanks for enquiring.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q289022

Good luck.