Tag: dual_boot_configuration

How to uninstall/delete Vista with dual-boot with XP

June 27, 2007 by Jason

If you really got with all the new looks and new features being offered with new vista and want to remove vista to free up some disk space.

But you may have installed vista in dual boot configuration with xp so i that case you have to adopt a whole new different procedure in order to uninstall vista.

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Speeding Up the Dual-Boot Timeout

January 25, 2007 by Jason

If you dual-boot your with XP and another , you see an selection menu on startup. If you typically boot into XP and not the other , you can speed up the dual-boot timeout value so that you do not wait so long for the boot process to select your default and continue with the boot process. The default timeout value is 30 seconds but you can change this setting to 10. This gives you enough time to select the alternate if you want but also speeds up the boot process. You can skip this section if you do not use a dual-boot configuration.
Follow these steps:
1. Locate the boot.ini file on your . It is a hidden file by default; mine is located in C:\boot.ini.
2. Open the file with (which is what opens it by default).
3. Change the Timeout value to 10 (see Figure 4-11).
4. Select File/Save and close .