XP Dual boot renaming

[Graham Naylor]

Hi,

With some help from this newsgroup I now have set up my system with 2 copies
of XP on seperate partitions in a dual boot mode.

When I start the PC I am presented with a menu askng which version of XP I
wish to run, unfortunalely the desciption is the same for each version, is
there a file I can edit to change these desriptions?

Thanks
Graham

[Patrick]

Graham Naylor wrote:
> Hi,
>
> With some help from this newsgroup I now have set up my system with 2
> copies of XP on seperate partitions in a dual boot mode.
>
> When I start the PC I am presented with a menu askng which version of
> XP I wish to run, unfortunalely the desciption is the same for each
> version, is there a file I can edit to change these desriptions?
>
> Thanks
> Graham

Here be dragons (link to Microsoft page);

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;289022

[Ben Jorna]

"Patrick" > schreef in bericht
...
> Graham Naylor wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > With some help from this newsgroup I now have set up my system with 2
> > copies of XP on seperate partitions in a dual boot mode.
> >
> > When I start the PC I am presented with a menu askng which version of
> > XP I wish to run, unfortunalely the desciption is the same for each
> > version, is there a file I can edit to change these desriptions?
> >
> > Thanks
> > Graham
>
> Here be dragons (link to Microsoft page);
>
> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;289022
>
Much more easier than manualy editting boot.ini is:
Click on My Computer
Select Properties
Select the Advanced tab
Click on the 3rd "Settings button"
Click on the pull down list
and edit the first or second line.

Click OK twice.

Ben

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi Graham,

Start/run C:\boot.ini

Change the entry names associated with each in the [operating systems]
section. Do not touch the rest of the entries.

--
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

"Graham Naylor" > wrote in message
...
> Hi,
>
> With some help from this newsgroup I now have set up my system with 2
copies
> of XP on seperate partitions in a dual boot mode.
>
> When I start the PC I am presented with a menu askng which version of XP I
> wish to run, unfortunalely the desciption is the same for each version, is
> there a file I can edit to change these desriptions?
>
> Thanks
> Graham
>
>
>

[Graham Naylor]

Ben

Thanks, the system now boots with the required menu.

Graham

"Ben Jorna" > wrote in message
...
>
> "Patrick" > schreef in bericht
> ...
> > Graham Naylor wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > With some help from this newsgroup I now have set up my system with 2
> > > copies of XP on seperate partitions in a dual boot mode.
> > >
> > > When I start the PC I am presented with a menu askng which version of
> > > XP I wish to run, unfortunalely the desciption is the same for each
> > > version, is there a file I can edit to change these desriptions?
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > > Graham
> >
> > Here be dragons (link to Microsoft page);
> >
> > http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;289022
> >
> Much more easier than manualy editting boot.ini is:
> Click on My Computer
> Select Properties
> Select the Advanced tab
> Click on the 3rd "Settings button"
> Click on the pull down list
> and edit the first or second line.
>
> Click OK twice.
>
> Ben
>
>