simple multibooting question

[Guest]

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At startup there's a list of the various systems
installed. You can select which one to boot up.
I know there's a text file you can alter to give
a different name to each installation of Windows,
but I can't remember the name or location. Can
anyone remind me, please?

 

[Guest]

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Right-click MY COMPUTER and select:
Properties > Advanced > Startup and Recovery Settings > Edit

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"Peter Morris" wrote:

| At startup there's a list of the various systems
| installed. You can select which one to boot up.
| I know there's a text file you can alter to give
| a different name to each installation of Windows,
| but I can't remember the name or location. Can
| anyone remind me, please?

 

[Guest]

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Or edit C:\boot.ini with Notepad.

*TimDaniels*

"Carey Frisch [MVP]" replied:
> Right-click MY COMPUTER and select:
> Properties > Advanced > Startup and Recovery Settings > Edit
>
> "Peter Morris" wrote:
>
> | At startup there's a list of the various systems
> | installed. You can select which one to boot up.
> | I know there's a text file you can alter to give
> | a different name to each installation of Windows,
> | but I can't remember the name or location. Can
> | anyone remind me, please?
>

 

[brianc]

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Whatever is the system partition, the notepad file is boot.ini in the root
folder.
"Timothy Daniels" <TDaniels@NoSpamDot.com> wrote in message
news:5K6dneSlwrnRNXjfRVn-oA@comcast.com...
> Or edit C:\boot.ini with Notepad.
>
> *TimDaniels*
>
> "Carey Frisch [MVP]" replied:
>> Right-click MY COMPUTER and select:
>> Properties > Advanced > Startup and Recovery Settings > Edit
>>
>> "Peter Morris" wrote:
>>
>> | At startup there's a list of the various systems
>> | installed. You can select which one to boot up.
>> | I know there's a text file you can alter to give
>> | a different name to each installation of Windows,
>> | but I can't remember the name or location. Can
>> | anyone remind me, please?
>>

 

[Guest]

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"Carey Frisch [MVP]" <cnfrisch@nospamgmail.com> wrote in message
news:e3pGHYYkFHA.3288@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> Right-click MY COMPUTER and select:
> Properties > Advanced > Startup and Recovery Settings > Edit

Thanks a lot.

(Wow, talk about fast service)

 

[Guest]

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"Carey Frisch [MVP]" <cnfrisch@nospamgmail.com> wrote in message
news:e3pGHYYkFHA.3288@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> Right-click MY COMPUTER and select:
> Properties > Advanced > Startup and Recovery Settings > Edit

Thanks a lot.

(Wow, talk about fast service)

 

[Guest]

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You're quite welcome!

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

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"Peter Morris" wrote:

| Thanks a lot.
|
| (Wow, talk about fast service)

 

[Guest]

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Could be Spyware trying to hijack you. Download, install, update and run all
of the following.

Ad-Aware
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/

Spybot search and destroy
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/

Microsoft Windows AntiSpyware (Beta)
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/default.mspx

If none of the above fixes the issue then download Hijack this, run it, save
a copy of the log file and cut and paste it back here to the group so that
it can be analyzed.

HijackThis
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/downloads.html


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Peter Morris wrote:
> At startup there's a list of the various systems
> installed. You can select which one to boot up.
> I know there's a text file you can alter to give
> a different name to each installation of Windows,
> but I can't remember the name or location. Can
> anyone remind me, please?

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