Skip the boot selection screen and boot right into Windows 7
What does this do?
When you have multiple operating systems installed on your computer, you will have to pick an OS to boot into each time you turn on your computer.
The boot selection screen
This tutorial teaches you how to eliminate the screen altogether so you can boot into any opearting system without having to choose. Or if you’d like, you can also reduce the amount of time the computer gives you before it picks the default operating system to boot into.
Why would you want to do this?
Saves time if you’re mostly booting into one operating system. For example, I have a multi-boot setup for benchmarking purposes. But most of the time, I use Windows 7.
How-To:
1) Open the Start Menu, right click on Computer, and select Properties
2) Select Advanced System Settings from the sidebar
3) Click on Settings under Startup and Recovery
4) If you want to skip the boot selection screen completely, uncheck the box beside Time to display list of operating systems
If you just want to decrease the amount of time it takes for the boot selection screen to stay open, just change the number of seconds in the box beside.
What did you think of this guide? Too many pictures? Not enough instructions? Good tutorial? Please let us know in the comments.
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I also recommend on installing iReboot, that allows you to choose which OS you will boot into next restart.
Thanks for the suggestion Goni.
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If I could get some feedback on this tutorial that would be great. Did I use too many photos? Not enough instruction? Please let me know!
hey Al,
the amount of pics is okay, although your main problem is profiling. This tip is NOT for the majority of readers. I’m into marketing, so let me tell you, profiling is one of the most important aspects of a successful marketing plan.
All of us knew this setting, plus the explanation (though it’s good) is too much on a beginners level.
If there’s no actual ‘news’ out there for days, then you must do a thorough research, and figure out a txt worth publishing. Cuz txts for ‘dummies’ will chase the PROs away..
so be careful with that.
You could have written about the WinKey combos, e.g. did you know what WinKey+number does? Or WinKey + T, or WinKey + Arrows, WinKey + Spacebar?? These are all cool hidden features.
And one more thing. I LOVE your blog, i visit it daily, one of my opera speed-dials,
so keep up the great work, and tell me what are your plans with the site after October? (every beta blog dies after the product is released).
wishing the best
L.
The original plan was to do news and put out tips and tweaks. I didn’t think this was a very newbie tip at all but I guess it is.
Because there was so much news to cover and due to time constraints earlier, I didn’t have time to post tips. These tips articles actually take quite a while because I have to take screenshots, and crop as well.
If you wish to contact me, drop an email to admin[at]windows7center[dot]com =)
A good tip also is the PSR.exe for windows 7
PSR would help on your screen shots and would actually do most of the work for you,when doing a tutorial.
Hi Al!
I think that there’s never too many photos, I didn’t have to read anything because just seeing the pictures I already knew what to do.
In the other hand… it’s not a Win7 trick, I mean… that option is there since WinXP, I already knew it.
So… I think that the next time you should look for new tricks.
I hope my opinion could be useful for you. =)
Sorry for my English! I’m from Argentina.
You could have done it a easier way via pressing windows logo + r and typing msconfig and goto the tab boot and change everything from there.
But that doesn’t allow you to completely wipe out the screen since minimum time to be set is 3 seconds
Ali this tutorial is perfect, small steps showing every step with a picture. Remember that a picture says a thousand words, and its good that you also include a reason why someone might want to do this. Keep it simple, keep it neat, and step by step. Pretend you are constructing your tutorials at a complete and utter newbie who has never ever done it before!
Well done.
Or you can always run the command msconfig and on boot settings set time to 1 second..it will do the same thing faster
Minimum time is 3 seconds.
There is a easier version to edit the booting options:
- Start, type in the search bar “msconfig” and hit enter
- Then, on the new window, click on the “Start” tab
There you have it. You have even more options than you have in the Startup and Recovery window.
There is no such thing as a “Start” tab in msconfig.
Sorry, I don’t know the english translation for this… I mean this tab:
http://www.abload.de/img/msconfigkbgk.jpg
I’d recommend EasyBCD 2.0, it’s very easy to make a dual-booter to mulitple OS’es (even to Hackint0sh OS’es). It’s easy to use, even for noobs like me.
Great program! You can rename your OS’s too
Thanks. I will write about it soon =)
This guide “assumes” one is logged in to W7 … a faulty assumption. Before Vista one only had to modify the boot.ini file in the booting partition. Is there such a option for those of us unable to get past the bootloader and into the OS?
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First visit today. – I’ve bookmarked the site.
The instructions are clear and easy to follow. Thanks
Wonder how to change the “name” eg
“Windows 7″ to “w7#39″
very annoying always to have the sameness of
“Windows 7″
Thanks for this at least I had a temporary solution to my problem regarding boot selection.
Hello,
Useful article, but do you have any idea how to get rid of the useless boot options altogether?
I had to reinstall Windows 7 and I did it like I was used to under WinXP: boot from DVD then format the old partition that housed the old OS then install fresh.
However, after that I get a boot selection screen with the new Windows 7 and the old Windows 7 (which obviously points to nothing).
I would like to get rid of the useless option as even though I chose to not display it by unchecking the time checkbox, the bootloader is still loaded (you can see it flickers on the screen) and that’s just annoying.