Hello,

I installed a clean install of Vista Premium from Windows XP. Now everytime
i boot up my computer i have to pick an option whether to boot up from Visa,
Last know best version or Windows XP. How do i aviod seeing those options
ande bootup by default from Vista?.

Dhana wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I installed a clean install of Vista Premium from Windows XP. Now everytime
> i boot up my computer i have to pick an option whether to boot up from Visa,
> Last know best version or Windows XP. How do i aviod seeing those options
> and bootup by default from Vista?.

Vista has a command-line tool called 'bcdedit' which is such a pain to
use that these folks wrote a graphical front-end for it:

http://www.vistabootpro.org/

I'd say you shouldn't remove that boot menu until you've used Vista for
a week or so. You can also set the default timeout for 5 seconds so you
don't need to interact with the menu if you don't want to.

How do i set up the time out limit?

"Don" wrote:

> Dhana wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I installed a clean install of Vista Premium from Windows XP. Now everytime
> > i boot up my computer i have to pick an option whether to boot up from Visa,
> > Last know best version or Windows XP. How do i aviod seeing those options
> > and bootup by default from Vista?.
>
> Vista has a command-line tool called 'bcdedit' which is such a pain to
> use that these folks wrote a graphical front-end for it:
>
> http://www.vistabootpro.org/
>
> I'd say you shouldn't remove that boot menu until you've used Vista for
> a week or so. You can also set the default timeout for 5 seconds so you
> don't need to interact with the menu if you don't want to.
>

Dhana wrote:
> How do i set up the time out limit?

Control Panel::System and Maintenance::System
[You may need to enter the Administrator's password here.]

Then click on 'Advanced system settings'. The timeout is
set in the 'Startup and Recovery' settings dialog.