Two Operating Systems on Startup?

By Luke

When reinstalling Windows, due to an interruption during installation or due to a wrong move somewhere you might end up seeing your two operating systems to choose from on startup. The Operating System choices will be shown with the primary OS on top and a choice to make your pick for the operating system within 30 seconds. After being accustomed to having your computer boot up automatically for so long, having to manually pick your OS mainly if the operating system you use is the bottom choice maybe a real hassle. Below I’ve described how you can automate your startup back to how it was.

Open Start > My Computer > Properties > Advanced

Select Startup and Recovery Settings

From the System Startup Properties pick the OS you use on startup

Uncheck the two option in the System startup properties and save the settings

Restart the computer and test. If you run into any issues leave a comment below.

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24 Comments so far

Infeon Digital Media January 19, 2009 4:53 pm

Thanks for the tip. I was looking for this.

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Nelson January 21, 2009 4:35 am

pretty good tip. you can also modify the boot.ini by going to the command prompt and type BOOT.INI to make the boot.ini file come up, the you can edit the dual-boot problem from there too. just set the time to 0 will do it.

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luq reply on January 21st, 2009 6:58 pm:
thanks for the tip Nelson.

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mbai douglas reply on July 6th, 2010 4:20 pm:
thanks for the simple, straight & up to date answers that i found from this site.

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Web CEO review February 7, 2009 5:08 pm

well, after research almost 1 hour i found this tips in your nice blog, thanks !

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The Architects February 12, 2009 2:07 pm

Wow, this tips exactly what i am looking for. After reinstalling windows because f**king virus, I found that there were 2 OS in start up. I thought that my computer still injected by virus.

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jammer February 19, 2009 4:50 am

Hi.. thanks for the information..very nice.. you have great website..

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Healthcare Management March 6, 2009 3:07 pm

Very few know about this two OS like yours thx for useful information, even here don’t having such knowledge thank you for info.

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Comet LCD HDTV March 29, 2009 10:50 pm

great tip! i really dont know that you can correct this error with some option in windows. What i usually do is reinstall the windows after formatting the hard disk as this option piss me off

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funny stuff April 3, 2009 1:08 am

Thanks for the tip on dealing with two OS. Im thinking of having linux and XP at the same time.

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Bali Villas April 8, 2009 12:53 pm

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E-TradeCounter April 9, 2009 3:16 pm

Thanks for that! Great information there, very simple to follow.

Will use this information in the future many thanks!

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Used Tires April 16, 2009 7:14 pm

Awesome tip, I wish I had known about this tip when I used to have a triple boot.

Windows XP / Vista / Linux =D

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tiffany August 30, 2009 2:33 pm

Thanks for that! Great information there, very simple to follow

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Chabad September 28, 2009 11:01 am

I was looking for this, thanks for sharing.

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chetan February 12, 2010 11:51 pm

i have WIN 7 on both the drives an dont know which one to select while changing the properties.. i usually select the second one while booting as 1st one is already deleted.. plz suggest..

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Donna July 5, 2010 6:24 pm

Thankyou for this tip was very helpful info Cheers

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Jaydee September 25, 2010 7:15 am

I once had the same issue. So this is how to do it.

sharing it.

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muroose November 12, 2010 6:24 pm

friends first i had w7 os.then i changed to xp (made it in a seperate drive ).In start up and recovery windows7 not appering now help me

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shubham November 19, 2010 2:49 pm

m still stuck with the problem, i have two operation system, windows xp home edition and windows server 2003. but at the start only xp is coming… help me……..

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mar navidad March 22, 2011 11:51 am

hi sir!!

i want to ask how can i restore the screen at start-up where u can choose the 2 OSs. i was hiding the other OS for my private use because others in the family is using the same pc. now i can’t go to the other os. now my pc is booting in xp only while the other OS is w7 hidden at start-up. i’ll appreciate the help u can offer sir. pls send it to my email. ur effort should be acknowledged in this page. thank u so much sir!!

mar

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Vicky April 3, 2011 5:22 am

Thanks a lot dough..

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