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April 6th, 2007 01:00

remove vista boot manager

Hi there, could any of you tell me how i can remove the vista boot manager and just boot straight into windows vista?  thank you

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April 6th, 2007 01:00

What is "Vista Boot Manager" ???

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April 6th, 2007 02:00

Is a manager were you can do multi-boot,  say if you partition your drive.   1 has windows vista and the other is windows xp.  gives you the option of OS you what to boot in.

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April 6th, 2007 12:00

Edit the boot.ini file in the boot drive root directory. 
 
that is what you do in XP.
 
in VISTA you use bcdedit.exe,
 
 
bcdedit.exe /delete {id of boot entry to remove}

Try bcdedit.exe /? to read the help documentation as a previous poster suggested.


Message Edited by VMBieg on 04-06-2007 08:08 AM

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April 6th, 2007 12:00

Vista has no boot.ini file. It may be created to support earlier versions in a dual boot system, but it does not affect booting in Vista. Editing this file then would be pointless. Boot.ini is not even created on systems with only Vista installed.

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April 6th, 2007 12:00

Sorry - should have realized that you had a dual boot system.
The easiest way to do this is:
 
Start>Control Panel>System>Advanced system settings>Advanced tab>Startup and Recovery section>Settings. Make sure that Vista is selected as the default operating system and the UNcheck the "time to display list of operating systems".

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April 6th, 2007 17:00

BRIAN3, Please post your results if you try Rebel9's instructions. I will be doing the same thing before long and it would help to know what works. That is the way I would have attempted to do it. Thanks!

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April 7th, 2007 02:00

hi there, i did what rebel9 told me, i still se the boot manager just for a sec before it boots into vista.

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April 7th, 2007 03:00

Hi BRIAN3, Thanks for the update. Sounds like there might be one more little step involved if you are getting a brief view but I don't know what it is.:smileysad: I will keep working on it and maybe someone will post here and give us the answer. I am currently dual-booting XP Pro and Vista Ultimate but I hope to eliminate the XP within a month or so. By then I may be more comfortable with Vista and get some sound problems out of the way. Thanks again for the information. 

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April 7th, 2007 03:00

Hi
Have you tryed this one, it will let you manage the Vista boot manager.
read it over it is a very good tool.
 


Message Edited by C3PO5 on 04-06-2007 09:10 PM

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April 7th, 2007 04:00

hey there, well i got rid of the vista boot manager, yay.  well i like vista and i got my soundmax to work on here.    But the thing is that i got a 2004 dell 8300 demison model, is doing ok working with vista, but the gameing isn't that well, because im running a old 128mb nvidia 5200 geforce.   I'm running windows vista home basic edition.  I'm just trying it out for a month, then switch back to xp. hopeing later this month i well get a dell vista computer.

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April 7th, 2007 11:00

Can you tell us how you got rid of it entirely? Thanks.

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April 8th, 2007 04:00

i use that vista boot pro program, and i got rid of it.  now i just boot straight into vista.
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