Double boot Question

Control Panel - System
On the Advanced tab click on Startup and Recovery (or Settings) in the lower right corner.

Ther is a registry hack for win2k from a tool kit, but Microsoft will have a power tool program for xp that will let you option out your boot menu. Look around for "Power Toys". Good luck

Boot the computer into Windows XP,click Start->Settings->Control Panel,select System from the panel,then choose Startup and Recovery from this panel,you will see box to change the time to boot into selected OS

Answers 1 and 3 will more readily resolve your issue, but I just wanted to point out that you can also access this by right-clicking (once) on My Computer and selecting Properties from the drop-down menu. Just a shortcut to minimize steps and easier to remember. Just don't set the delay so short that you don't have time to react. :)

How would you do this in Win 98??

XP makes the change (see answer # 3), you don't have to change 98.

With 98 you would either need to use 3rd party boot software and disable XPs boot loader or copy ntldr , ntdetect.com & boot.ini from xp to 98 and edit the boot.ini file to change the default OS. Then make a batch file to get it all to load up first. (if you decide to do this I can give you the info in more detail if you want)
Personaly I use a 3 party boot manager and install all my OS on different primary partitions much easier to fix if one OS fails.

Hi! If you can erase the time that you have to make your choice for your dual boot, to do this you have to edit the " Boot.ini " files, before doing this you most see all your hiding files, then open the file that i mantion and replace the number by-1, save and exit; now the system will wate for you!

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