Help with bootmanger windows XP Professional please

Hi there guys I know it a Windows 7 Forum but really need help with XP and know that you guys can help me the best. When I boot there is a bootlaoder that keeps on giving me the option to boot from windows that work and "Windows (Default)" that doesn't work. I edited my boot.ini when you right click> advanced> and then the settings there in the notepad took out the line that seemed to be the Windows XP setup but now it changed to "Windows (Default)" how can I remove the whole thing and make it choose the correct one.

Thanks.....

ALSO on every shutdown and restart there is a window that says explorer.exe not responding how can i make this window not pop-up....please help with these two issues....Thanks in advanced

Maybe you can paste the exact contents of your boot.ini here, also exactly what the boot menu entries are currently.

Bill2 said:

Maybe you can paste the exact contents of your boot.ini here, also exactly what the boot menu entries are currently.

[Boot Loader]
Timeout=5
[Operating Systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect

There you go mate

Core7 said:

Bill2 said:

Maybe you can paste the exact contents of your boot.ini here, also exactly what the boot menu entries are currently.

[Boot Loader]
Timeout=5
[Operating Systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect

There you go mate

Edit boot.ini so it looks exactly like this.

[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 Professional" /fastdetect

Bill2 said:

Core7 said:

Bill2 said:

Maybe you can paste the exact contents of your boot.ini here, also exactly what the boot menu entries are currently.

[Boot Loader]
Timeout=5
[Operating Systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect

There you go mate

Edit boot.ini so it looks exactly like this.

[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 Professional" /fastdetect

bro u are a genius...please help me with the explore.exe if you can.......really much thanks mate works perfect....

Hello, you still there? Explorer.exe hanging at start/shutdown could be any number of problems- malware, conflicting drivers/apps, corrupted system files....I suggest you scan thoroughly with a good anti-malware, then clean up temp files and defragment. You can also run a repair install.

Repair Windows XP by Performing a Repair Install (Part 1 of 2)

Scanning with Malwarebytes registered and going to clean up with ccleaner and defrag with windows defrag do you think it is a good way?

Didn't wprk how to check for icoflicting driver/apps drivers?