Vista - After upgrade, boot menu (OS selection) comes up....

We did a Vista upgrade on an XP box. Chose to do it as a clean upgrade,
preserving the original version of Windows XP and all it's data in the
Windows.Old folder. All went swimmingly BUT....

Whenever the system is booted up, we get a boot menu, i.e., the loader
prompts us to select the OS installation we want to boot into. This is
the first and only of SEVERAL upgrades I did that has this boot menu
popping up so it kinda surprised me.

I'd just like to zap it so the user doesn't get confused; the old OS is
long gone anyway (we just copied the data over) so the options aren't
valid anyway. How do I disable the boot menu?

James

Sounds like it didn't finish installing all the way. That option shouldn't be there if it did. Try hitting F8 while rebooting (safe mode menu) & click on the boot from last known (I believe GOOD) version. You'll see it. That should allow it to pick up where it left off & finish. If that was the problem. I had that happen to me on installation once when it was on the last reboot of installing & it was interupted.

Hope this helps,
Shawn

Noctaire wrote:
> We did a Vista upgrade on an XP box. Chose to do it as a clean upgrade,
> preserving the original version of Windows XP and all it's data in the
> Windows.Old folder. All went swimmingly BUT....
>
> Whenever the system is booted up, we get a boot menu, i.e., the loader
> prompts us to select the OS installation we want to boot into. This is
> the first and only of SEVERAL upgrades I did that has this boot menu
> popping up so it kinda surprised me.
>
> I'd just like to zap it so the user doesn't get confused; the old OS is
> long gone anyway (we just copied the data over) so the options aren't
> valid anyway. How do I disable the boot menu?
>
> James

You can run the System Configuration Utility and Check Boot Paths.

Start Orb>Run>msconfig [enter]

Or if you don't have the classic Start Menu, just type msconfig into the
Search box.


Malke
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MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User

go to Control Panel\System and Maintenance\System on the left side titled
tasks select "Advance system settings", In "startup and recovery" click
settings button, under " system startup" uncheck the first box that say time
to display list of operating system. This will disable the list of operating
system during boot.



"Noctaire" wrote:

> We did a Vista upgrade on an XP box. Chose to do it as a clean upgrade,
> preserving the original version of Windows XP and all it's data in the
> Windows.Old folder. All went swimmingly BUT....
>
> Whenever the system is booted up, we get a boot menu, i.e., the loader
> prompts us to select the OS installation we want to boot into. This is
> the first and only of SEVERAL upgrades I did that has this boot menu
> popping up so it kinda surprised me.
>
> I'd just like to zap it so the user doesn't get confused; the old OS is
> long gone anyway (we just copied the data over) so the options aren't
> valid anyway. How do I disable the boot menu?
>
> James
>