Abhinav Dhoke asks:
My PC is running Windows XP.
I once tried to install ‘Windows XP Professional Setup ′ and it had failed.
Since then. when the system boots up, it lists both ‘Windows XP Professional Setup′ and ‘Windows XP′. The default OS is ‘Windows XP′ and after the options pop up, gives 3 seconds to choose and then starts to install ‘Windows XP Professional Setup′ automatically.
How can I remove it from system boot select.
And plus.
I Tried deleting it from BOOT.INI in msconfig, discussed in earlier question, but there’s no option to delete. Is there an alternative?
Browser: Chrome 24
System: Windows XP
Tagged: boot issue, dual boot, uninstall, windows issue, windows xp
System: Windows XP
Tagged: boot issue, dual boot, uninstall, windows issue, windows xp
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Alan Wade
November 18, 2012Control Panel/ System/Advanced.
Click on Startup and Recovery/Settings/Default Operating System
Change the dropdown to your desired OS.
You will see a time out which is 30 seconds by default, set that to 0.
OK your way out and reboot.
It should now boot directly to your chosen Win XP.
Go back to Boot.ini under msconfig.msc and click the button labelled ‘Check All Boot Paths’.
A dialogue box should open showing the Windows XP Pro that you want to remove.
Highlight it confirm you want to remove this entry and then reboot.
It should now be gone.
Thanks, It is now solved.
I did the timeout change but wasn’t able to follow the second thing. Couldn’t find how to remove it. As I told earlier, It does get highlighted but there’s no option to remove the entry.
So I returned to check the timeout entries and edited the BOOT.INI file from there. As Suggested by John Chambers below. Any way, It’s now Done.
November 18, 2012You should mark this question as resolved, then:)
November 19, 2012ha14
November 18, 2012perhaps you can use the boot menu in EasyBCD
http://neosmart.net/EasyBCD/
Deleting Menu Entries
http://neosmart.net/wiki/display/EBCD/Deleting+Menu+Entries
Well, I just did it normally according to the other responders. But Thanks for your help.
Maybe next time. 
November 18, 2012great you solved the problem EasyBCD has more feature just scroll through the interface and options, you may like it.
November 19, 2012Jim Chambers
November 18, 2012You can edit the boot.ini in notepad. Make sure to save a copy of unedited version in another location in case of problems
Thanx buddy.
November 18, 2012Abhinav Dhoke
November 18, 2012Okay, this is resolved now. How do I tell them to close this Question.?
Click on the resolved button present on the below of your question’s description.
November 19, 2012Prasanth Mathialagan
November 20, 2012EasyBCD works fine for these tasks.
Abba Jee
November 24, 2012i guess its not solved yet :S or maybe Abhinav Dhoke don’t have much time to click solved
Sathya Murthy
November 30, 2012While an windows xp installation is half installed and you by mistake start installation of another by restarting then two copies of windows will be shown in the system
Prashant Mirjankar
March 11, 2013Simplest of method is by using Easy BCD to delete the entry.