[toffeymen23]

hi all, when starting my father in laws pc it always comes up with 2 options.........1 start windows xp pro 2 start windows xp home is there any way of removing this option so his pc will just load up without having to choose one of these options. thanks for looking

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Hi toffeymen23 and welcome to Geeks to Go.

The options are coming up because he has 2 operating systems installed. He has XP pro and XP home.
We will need to know a couple things first.
1. What OS does he use?
2. On the OS he does not use, is there any data that he would want to keep? such as in "My Documents"

[123Runner]

Hi toffeymen23 and welcome to Geeks to Go.

The options are coming up because he has 2 operating systems installed. He has XP pro and XP home.
We will need to know a couple things first.
1. What OS does he use?
2. On the OS he does not use, is there any data that he would want to keep? such as in "My Documents"

[toffeymen23]

hi there thanks for the reply....he uses winxp pro....and no there is nothing on the win xp home

[123Runner]

We will have to get rid of the startup option in the boot.ini file

I want to see a copy of your file.
Go to My Computer and right click on it.
Then click on properties.
Click on the advanced tab.
Go to start up and recovery.
Click on settings. This will give a new window.
Click on edit to open up the boot.ini file
Copy and paste the file in your next post.

It should look similar to

[boot loader]
timeout=3
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptOut

However you should have 1 extra line.

[toffeymen23]

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect