choose os on boot

[Scot]

I just purchased a machine that has the recovery
information on a partition on the active hard drive. The
system came with XP home. I upgraded to XP Pro and now
whenever I boot into Windows, I receive a dos screen
giving me a choice of the recovery partition or booting
into XP Pro. The default is to boot into Pro, but I
would like to eliminate this step and speed up my boot
time.

I went into msconfig under the run function. Under
BOOTINI, there seems to be 2 command lines that refer
specifically to the latter boot description. Should I
delete these 2 commands to eliminate this snag? One
other side issue. I just installed Word 2002. I tried
to copy the command lines using, "Ctl/C" and then "Ctl/V"
and instead of pasting what was copied, I get a pdf icon -
what's that all about? This was a new one to me!!

Thanks for your help in advance!

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi,

Start/run C:\boot.ini

Remove the line you don't want from the [operating systems] section. Change
timeout= to 3.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone
www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
Win98 Help - www.rickrogers.org

"Scot" > wrote in message
...
> I just purchased a machine that has the recovery
> information on a partition on the active hard drive. The
> system came with XP home. I upgraded to XP Pro and now
> whenever I boot into Windows, I receive a dos screen
> giving me a choice of the recovery partition or booting
> into XP Pro. The default is to boot into Pro, but I
> would like to eliminate this step and speed up my boot
> time.
>
> I went into msconfig under the run function. Under
> BOOTINI, there seems to be 2 command lines that refer
> specifically to the latter boot description. Should I
> delete these 2 commands to eliminate this snag? One
> other side issue. I just installed Word 2002. I tried
> to copy the command lines using, "Ctl/C" and then "Ctl/V"
> and instead of pasting what was copied, I get a pdf icon -
> what's that all about? This was a new one to me!!
>
> Thanks for your help in advance!

[james russel]

after deleting this entry on your boot.ini

"C:\cmdcons\bootsect.dat="Microsoft Windows Recovery
Console" /cmdcons"

delete the folder named C:\Cmdcons

this is a hidden folder, you have to unhide protected
operating system files. by opening folder options and
view.

>-----Original Message-----
>Hi,
>
>Start/run C:\boot.ini
>
>Remove the line you don't want from the [operating
systems] section. Change
>timeout= to 3.
>
>--
>Best of Luck,
>
>Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x
>http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
>Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone
>www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
>Win98 Help - www.rickrogers.org
>
>"Scot" > wrote in message
...
>> I just purchased a machine that has the recovery
>> information on a partition on the active hard drive.
The
>> system came with XP home. I upgraded to XP Pro and now
>> whenever I boot into Windows, I receive a dos screen
>> giving me a choice of the recovery partition or booting
>> into XP Pro. The default is to boot into Pro, but I
>> would like to eliminate this step and speed up my boot
>> time.
>>
>> I went into msconfig under the run function. Under
>> BOOTINI, there seems to be 2 command lines that refer
>> specifically to the latter boot description. Should I
>> delete these 2 commands to eliminate this snag? One
>> other side issue. I just installed Word 2002. I tried
>> to copy the command lines using, "Ctl/C" and
then "Ctl/V"
>> and instead of pasting what was copied, I get a pdf
icon -
>> what's that all about? This was a new one to me!!
>>
>> Thanks for your help in advance!
>
>
>.
>