Whistler Personal Edition

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Most bizarre after recent automatic update I get a boot menu asking if I
want
XP Home or Microsoft Whistler Personal Edition

WTF!!! This is a plain vanilla install a week old only has CA Etrust
antivirus and M$ Antispyware on it ....NOTHING else

ANY IDEAS ANYONE PLEASE!!!!

 

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Go to Start > Run and type: MSCONFIG , and hit enter.
Click on the BOOT.INI tab and then click on "Check All Boot Paths"
to delete incorrect boot paths.

If the above does not work for you, then:

Right-click MY COMPUTER and select:

Properties > Advanced > Startup and Recovery Settings > Edit

CAREFULLY edit your boot.ini file to remove the SECOND entry.
Your boot.ini file should then read similar to this:

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition" /fastdetect

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User
Microsoft Newsgroups

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"GB Baker" wrote:

| Most bizarre after recent automatic update I get a boot menu asking if I
| want
| XP Home or Microsoft Whistler Personal Edition
|
| WTF!!! This is a plain vanilla install a week old only has CA Etrust
| antivirus and M$ Antispyware on it ....NOTHING else
|
| ANY IDEAS ANYONE PLEASE!!!!

 

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Just to add to what Carey said
Whistler was the codename for XP just like Longhorn was for Vista.
So you don't have any nasty's on your system due to this.

--
Mike Pawlak






GB Baker wrote:
> Most bizarre after recent automatic update I get a boot menu asking
> if I want
> XP Home or Microsoft Whistler Personal Edition
>
> WTF!!! This is a plain vanilla install a week old only has CA Etrust
> antivirus and M$ Antispyware on it ....NOTHING else
>
> ANY IDEAS ANYONE PLEASE!!!!

 

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WOW Thanks guys. worked like a charm..it was driving me NUTS!!!
any ideas why this happened??

"Carey Frisch [MVP]" <cnfrisch@nospamgmail.com> wrote in message
news:uyUUdOMqFHA.3108@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> Go to Start > Run and type: MSCONFIG , and hit enter.
> Click on the BOOT.INI tab and then click on "Check All Boot Paths"
> to delete incorrect boot paths.
>
> If the above does not work for you, then:
>
> Right-click MY COMPUTER and select:
>
> Properties > Advanced > Startup and Recovery Settings > Edit
>
> CAREFULLY edit your boot.ini file to remove the SECOND entry.
> Your boot.ini file should then read similar to this:
>
> [boot loader]
> timeout=30
> default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS
> [operating systems]
> multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home
> Edition" /fastdetect
>
> --
> Carey Frisch
> Microsoft MVP
> Windows XP - Shell/User
> Microsoft Newsgroups
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> "GB Baker" wrote:
>
> | Most bizarre after recent automatic update I get a boot menu asking if I
> | want
> | XP Home or Microsoft Whistler Personal Edition
> |
> | WTF!!! This is a plain vanilla install a week old only has CA Etrust
> | antivirus and M$ Antispyware on it ....NOTHING else
> |
> | ANY IDEAS ANYONE PLEASE!!!!
>