Disable Vista OS Start Choice at Boot

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unfaithfulsfan
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Disable Vista OS Start Choice at Boot

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Yet another incredibly annoying aspect of my day......

I have a Dell Inspiron E1705 with Vista Home Premium. That is the only OS installed on the laptop. However, every time I boot it up, I get the OS choice screen which will not time out no matter what I do to fix it.

I have tried bcdedit. I have tried msconfig. I have tried going through control panel ->System Maintenance, etc., etc., to get to startup options and have disabled the time out altogether and still the #@%&*!! screen persists. :finga:

Has anyone else encountered this and successfully conquered it? [-o<

Thanks!

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Re: Disable Vista OS Start Choice at Boot

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Outside of BCEDIT i don't know how to change vista's bootloader screen.

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Re: Disable Vista OS Start Choice at Boot

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Don't know if this will help but was great at removing GRUB:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927392

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