Bill Cohane has it. XP works like that too. In XP you can edit it by clicking on Start/Settings/Control Panel/System/Advanced/Startup and Recovery-Settings/Edit It may be easier to do it from Windows Explorer. You should save what you have now as a back up just in case......... With one OS mine looks 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 The NOSPIN Group provides a monthly newsletter with great tips, information and ideas: NOSPIN-L, The NOSPIN Magazine Visit our web site to signup: http://freepctech.com