Re: Two Logons

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All the Edit button does is turn-off the attribute bits, open Boot.ini in
Notepad, and when you close Notepad, reset the attribute bits back to their
original settings.

The reason you have two, Rainy, can't remember how you came upon your
system, is that your system at some time, must have had some sort of a
dual-boot. Could have been for any reason.

the only way to know for sure is to view the boot.ini.

You could paste the contents here (or e-mail) and let one of else tell you
what the other boot entry does/did.

"Rainy" <rainy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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This is sort of like messing with the registry... scares me to play with
the
boot.ini.. Why did this happen?.. and even if I changed which one boots,
or
which one is the default one, it's still there, isn't it? is it taking up
space? Rainy
"Larry Gardner" <newscience83@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Rainy:

Forgot to mention ... you also need to view which is the default Operating
System used to boot. The Control Panel | System Properties... method also
show you the default OS that is chosen.

No sense in modifying Boot.ini manually, and then determine next reboot
that
you eliminated the Default OS to boot, huh?

"Rainy" <rainy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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gee, let me see.. hmmmm!! thanks for responding.. could you be specific
when
it comes to muck with the boot.ini.. :) Rainy
"Larry Gardner" <newscience83@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Rainy:

It is best to user Control Panel | System Properties | Advanced | Startup
and Recovery | Settings and use the Edit button to muck with the boot.ini
file.

Guess who?

"Rainy" <rainy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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hi.. here it is.. thanks for the response.. looks like two copies of
windows
xp It's the logon I get to just before the desktop shows.. Rainy
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home
Edition" /fastdetect /noexecute=optin /tutag=kerdhz /kernel=tukernel.exe

"Rick Rogers" <rick@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi Rainy,

You're not talking about the Welcome screen logon, but rather the system
logon at startup, yes? This one is on a black screen with white
characters
that offers which operating system to logon to? If so, this is a
function
of
boot.ini, and indicates that you have two installations of Windows on
the
same system. Let's confirm this by having you enter C:\Boot.ini into a
start/run box (or hit winkey+r), then click ok to open it in notepad.
Copy/paste the contents into a response by clicking edit/select
all/edit/copy, the paste the information into a response to this post by
clicking in the message text area and hitting ctrl+v.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

"Rainy" <rainy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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One on the top with my computer set up the way I did just recently
current
to today..
Two, the one on the bottom is windows set up in a previous state.. not
sure
I can explain this.. I have windows XP HOME, is this the way everyone's
is?
I don't think I want this, can I change it? Rainy












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