Boot Menu with 4 XP Home Selections

[John]

I have been having trouble and I have reinstalled XP
many, many times. (Mostly my doing) When I boot up I get
the DOS screen asking me to select the Operating System I
am booting. I get 4 rows of XP Home with a 30 second
tickoff. I hit enter and it works fine but I would rather
just boot straight into XP. I don't have a boot.ini file
in the root of C:\. (Not sure what to do with it anyway)
How can I get this straight?
Any help is appreciated.

Thanks,
John

[Matt Coy]

Hi John,

Go to the Control Panel and open the System applet. Click the Advanced tab
and under Startup and Recovery click Settings. Click the Edit button on the
screen that appears. If all four entries are identical under the [operating
systems] line, then just remove the bottom three. Then close the document
and
say Yes when it asks you if you would like to save the changes. You can
also change the time under 'Time to display list of operating systems:" to
whatever you wish. Click OK twice and then restart the computer and verify
that the changes have been successful.

--
Matt Coy, MCSE

"John" > wrote in message
...
> I have been having trouble and I have reinstalled XP
> many, many times. (Mostly my doing) When I boot up I get
> the DOS screen asking me to select the Operating System I
> am booting. I get 4 rows of XP Home with a 30 second
> tickoff. I hit enter and it works fine but I would rather
> just boot straight into XP. I don't have a boot.ini file
> in the root of C:\. (Not sure what to do with it anyway)
> How can I get this straight?
> Any help is appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> John

[John]

Thanks Matt
>-----Original Message-----
>Hi John,
>
>Go to the Control Panel and open the System applet.
Click the Advanced tab
>and under Startup and Recovery click Settings. Click
the Edit button on the
>screen that appears. If all four entries are identical
under the [operating
>systems] line, then just remove the bottom three. Then
close the document
>and
>say Yes when it asks you if you would like to save the
changes. You can
>also change the time under 'Time to display list of
operating systems:" to
>whatever you wish. Click OK twice and then restart the
computer and verify
>that the changes have been successful.
>
>--
>Matt Coy, MCSE
>
>"John" > wrote in
message
...
>> I have been having trouble and I have reinstalled XP
>> many, many times. (Mostly my doing) When I boot up I
get
>> the DOS screen asking me to select the Operating
System I
>> am booting. I get 4 rows of XP Home with a 30 second
>> tickoff. I hit enter and it works fine but I would
rather
>> just boot straight into XP. I don't have a boot.ini
file
>> in the root of C:\. (Not sure what to do with it
anyway)
>> How can I get this straight?
>> Any help is appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> John
>
>
>.
>

[John]

Thanks, you guys are quick!
John
>-----Original Message-----
>Hello John,
>Go to start > run and type msconfig > click ok. Sysytem
configuration utility will start. Click on the Boot.ini
tab. Get rid of 3 of the 4 installs. You may have to go
to the general tab and click on use modified boot.ini.
Good luck.
>.
>

[Nada Alwarid [MSFT]]

if you want to start with a clean slate, and have one OS to boot into, do
the following:
1. back up important files etc.. on another computer or disks (cd's, dvd's,
etc)
2. put in your XP installation CD. While you're in XP setup, make sure to
delete all partitions and re-create one (i also suggest that you format as
NTFS). This will wipe the whole system clean and will give you a fresh new
one (but it'll delete everything you have, so be sure to backup your files
elsewhere)

hope this helps!
nada
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"John" > wrote in message
...
> I have been having trouble and I have reinstalled XP
> many, many times. (Mostly my doing) When I boot up I get
> the DOS screen asking me to select the Operating System I
> am booting. I get 4 rows of XP Home with a 30 second
> tickoff. I hit enter and it works fine but I would rather
> just boot straight into XP. I don't have a boot.ini file
> in the root of C:\. (Not sure what to do with it anyway)
> How can I get this straight?
> Any help is appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> John