Good morning LLXX: Thanks for your post. How do I find the boot.ini ? and once I find it do I just highlight the first line and click delete? After that do I right click and will save be an option ? or will it open in notepad so I go to file/save ? Thanks for the help. I went to search/ and typed in boot.ini and it found one file in the C:\Windows\pss folder, the name for the file was boot.ini.backup. I don't think you want me to change a backup file do you And when I clicked on it Windows could not open this file because it does not know what program to use nor do I, can you give me more direction? Thanks I just went into Start/right click on my computer/properties/Advanced/Startup and Recovery/Settings/Edit. I believe this is where you want me to do the editing I've copied and pasted what showed up in note pad. Which of the lines do I want to delete? [boot loader] timeout=30 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition" /fastdetect Thanks, Karpat