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    How to delete OS options at startup?

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by DrPangloss, Jan 19, 2009.

  1. DrPangloss

    DrPangloss Notebook Guru

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    After FINALLY installing Vista Business, at startup I still have Windows 2000, XP Pro and I have to select Vista each time.

    How do I delete the other 2?
     
    DrPangloss, Jan 19, 2009
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  2. Big Mike

    Big Mike Notebook Deity

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    Easiest way would be to get easybcd http://neosmart.net/dl.php?id=1 to get rid of the startup entries, but you're left with the issue of actually eliminating the OSes, if they're on their own partitions you can delete the partitions, but if they're all on the same one weeding them out without destroying the vista install could be tricky.
     
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  3. Full-English

    Full-English Notebook Deity

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    Start, msconfig, then on the boot tab delete the options you don't want.
     
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  4. Alex

    Alex Super Moderator

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    Control panel/ System/Advanced system settings/Startup and recovery
    You will find the default settings and can change them there


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    Alex, Jan 19, 2009
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