remove unwanted boot-up OS choice

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  1. Posts : 4
    Win 7 64 bit
       #1

    remove unwanted boot-up OS choice


    Hi

    (My first post, so be gentle, please! :) )

    A few months ago I installed Jolicloud OS as an experiment (stupid me). I installed it onto a flash drive just so as not to mess up anything on my hdd. Anyway, when I tried to uninstall it the process failed (I later just reformatted the flash drive), but I am left with having to choose between Win7 & Jolicloud during boot up.

    I have been into the Windows boot manager and JC isn't even listed, but at least I was able to set Win7 to the default so that it auto-choose that instead of JC. (I followed basically this procedure).

    Can anyone tell me how to remove this boot-up menu?

    thanks!
    Toby.
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  2. Posts : 6,668
    Windows 7 x64
       #2

    I've always done it using msconfig under the boot tab you can just delete os's listed there.

    Assuming it is windows generating the boot prompt.
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  3. Posts : 1,996
    Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit
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  4. Posts : 4
    Win 7 64 bit
    Thread Starter
       #4

    That's where I was, and only Win7 is listed (see pic), but I definitely get the choice at boot.

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  5. Posts : 6,668
    Windows 7 x64
       #5

    set the timeout to zero. If that doesn't do it you'll need his app because it's likely not windows making the prompt.
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  6. ryo
    Posts : 1,953
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  7.    #7

    You'll also want to cleanly delete the boot listing from EasyBCD Edit Boot OS menu or it will remain in the BCD. Install Easy from link in post #3.
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  8. Posts : 11,408
    ME/XP/Vista/Win7
       #8

    How to uninstall Jolicloud OS:
    How do I uninstall Joli OS? : Jolicloud Help Center

    How to Restore the boot menu:
    Use the commands FixMbr & FixBoot in this tutorial:
    How to use the Bootrec.exe tool in the Windows Recovery Environment to troubleshoot and repair startup issues in Windows

    remove unwanted boot-up OS choice-startup-repair-4.png remove unwanted boot-up OS choice-startup-repair-6.png
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  9. Posts : 4
    Win 7 64 bit
    Thread Starter
       #9

    theog said:
    How to uninstall Jolicloud OS:
    How do I uninstall Joli OS? : Jolicloud Help Center

    How to Restore the boot menu:
    Use the commands FixMbr & FixBoot in this tutorial:
    How to use the Bootrec.exe tool in the Windows Recovery Environment to troubleshoot and repair startup issues in Windows

    remove unwanted boot-up OS choice-startup-repair-4.png remove unwanted boot-up OS choice-startup-repair-6.png
    Theog,

    Thanks for the pointer -- I gave it a look, and I don't have the installation disk (I am pretty sure), but the ability to write a new boot record looks useful. Also, I had originally followed those same instructions that you linked to uninstall JoliCloud OS. But it failed, and left me with an inoperative JC OS.

    thanks,
    Toby.
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  10. Posts : 4
    Win 7 64 bit
    Thread Starter
       #10

    p5bdkw: Yes. Yes I did want that software! It worked perfectly!! Thanks for the link. Very slick little app there.

    thanks,
    Toby.
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