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re: getting rid of faulty OS choices at startup
Sunday, May 15, 2005 at 8:26 am
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Posted by Soytnly (2 messages posted)


Okay, I did this and of course chose the wrong OS, but the f8 option doesn't work on my system...I'm locked out...HELP!!!!!


On Friday, April 8, 2005 at 5:57 am, Nathaniel wrote:
>Its Easy!
>Right click "My Computer"
>Go to "Properties"
>Click the "Advanced" tab
>Click the "Settings" button under the "Startup and Recovery" section
>Choose the OS choice you WANT to boot under the "System startup" section's "Default
>operating system"
>Uncheck the "Time to display list of operating systems" box
>Click "Ok"
>
>Your Done!, Next time you reboot, it wont give you that annoying OS choice menu!
>
>IF you chose the wrong one, dont panic, you can just hit F8 in the bootup process
>and there is an option to select os choices.
>
>
>


Written in response to:
re: getting rid of faulty OS choices at startup (Nathaniel: Friday, April 8, 2005 at 5:57 am)

Responses to this message:
*re: getting rid of faulty OS choices at startup (Soytnly: Sunday, May 15, 2005 at 10:03 am)

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-getting rid of faulty OS choices at startup (wil: Tue, Oct 19, 2004, 2:04 am)
*re: getting rid of faulty OS choices at startup (Yap: Tue, Oct 19, 2004, 3:31 am)
-re: getting rid of faulty OS choices at startup (Nathaniel: Fri, Apr 8, 2005, 5:57 am)
-re: getting rid of faulty OS choices at startup (Soytnly: Sun, May 15, 2005, 8:26 am)
*re: getting rid of faulty OS choices at startup (Soytnly: Sun, May 15, 2005, 10:03 am)
-re: getting rid of faulty OS choices at startup (oldjay: Wed, Nov 9, 2005, 5:19 am)
-re: getting rid of faulty OS choices at startup (Jon: Thu, Jan 26, 2006, 10:13 pm)
-re: getting rid of faulty OS choices at startup (Simmo: Thu, May 25, 2006, 10:07 pm)
*I still use Windows 98. (Robert: Sun, Feb 4, 2007, 10:44 am)
*re: getting rid of faulty OS choices at startup (RussellReal: Fri, Mar 16, 2007, 8:40 pm)
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