Removing Old Windows Boot on Windows 7

Something that started to get on my nerves was the fact that every time I booted my machine, it would ask me if I wanted to boot my older version of windows. I did some searching and came up with a quick and painless solution.

In Windows 7 you have to use a configuration tool for the boot menu. You can no longer just edit the boot.ini file. To do this you need to run "cmd" as administrator.

Use bcdedit /enum to look at the boot list.

C:\Windows\system32>bcdedit /enum

Windows Boot Manager

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identifier {bootmgr}

device partition=C:

description Windows Boot Manager

locale en-US

inherit {globalsettings}

default {current}

resumeobject {7a4f5321-daf0-11de-a4b9-b9516570860e}

displayorder {current}

toolsdisplayorder {memdiag}

timeout 30

Windows Boot Loader

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identifier {current}

device partition=C:

path \Windows\system32\winload.exe

description Windows 7

locale en-US

inherit {bootloadersettings}

recoverysequence {7a4f5323-daf0-11de-a4b9-b9516570860e}

recoveryenabled Yes

osdevice partition=C:

systemroot \Windows

resumeobject {7a4f5321-daf0-11de-a4b9-b9516570860e}

nx OptIn

numproc 2

usefirmwarepcisettings No

Warning! You can seriously mess up your system if you don't know what you are doing here. Do NOT delete {current} or {bootmgr}

Use the identifier property to delete unwanted boot options. In my case I had one that was {ntldr} for my old windows. So I used:

bcdedit /f /delete {ntldr}

Thats all there is to it! Happy booting.