Remove Boot Selection Page From Windows XP

Remove boot selection page from XP

Why Remove The Boot Selection Page?

Many people are disturbed by the windows XP boot screen’s selection page of two options or waiting 30 seconds. I’ll show you today how to delete the unwanted second options, and direct go to the boot page.

Who Shouldn’t Remove The Boot Selection Page?

If you use a dual boot in your PC, you must need the Boot Selection page to select between the boot options, otherwise the boot selection page is unnecessary.

Disable Windows XP Boot Selection Page

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Why This Happen?

If There is a Dual Boot
Dual boot often set either intentionally or unconciously when you install the OS. What ever the reason is, if there is a dual boot, the screen above will appear at the start.

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How to Remove It?

You can remove the Dual Boot Screen
You can delete the "Boot Selection Page" from the start of your Windows. Let's start the proceeding by clicking on the "Start Menu -> Control Panel"

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Go to The System Settings

You need to go to the advanced system settings
To do that, find the "System" icon from the control panel and click on it. It will open the Advanced System Settings Window for the next step.

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The Advanced Tab

Find the Advanced Tab
After opening the System Properties Window, you can see many tabs here, System Restore, Automatic update, General, Computer Name, etc. Please go for the "Advanced" tab.

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Startup and Recovary

Click on the Startup and Recovary Settings
When you will click on the Startup and Recovary "Setting" button you can find it's window, now click on the "Edit" button after the option "To edit the startup option manually".

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Modify the BOOT.INI file

Carefully Modify the Boot.ini File
Here is an important option for you to do, Please note that any wrong step can cause the Boot Failure in the next Boot. The BOOT.INI file has been opened. Delete the 2nd line and save the file.

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Remove the Time

Remove the 30 Seconds Waiting
After editing the boot.ini file manually, please untick the "Time to display list of operating systems" box. It causes the 30 seconds time delay everytime.

Restart your computer after deleting the 2nd line and saving the file. After restart you can see the result, No waiting anymore.  

You can now directly boot to the desktop and you have also successfully bypassed the boot waiting time.

Conclusion

Hope these tutorial helps you to delete the boot selection page from XP 🙂.

For tips like these, you can read our post category about “Tips and Tricks“.

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