How to remove an operating system from your boot in Windows 8
Table of contents:
- Various operating systems installed
- Steps prior to removing an operating system from the boot list
- Remove an operating system from the boot list with VisualBCD
On some occasions, for reasons of comfort or even for some vagueness when it comes to correctly installing our Windows 8 operating system, we prefer to leave other operating systems installed on the computer that one day we would like remove at least from system boot
Today in this space dedicated to Windows 8, we are going to explain in great detail how we can remove an operating system from our Windows 8 booteasily, quickly and very simply.
Various operating systems installed
On some occasions, not just out of vagueness, but perhaps out of necessity, we find ourselves with multiple operating systems installed on our computer, such as for example Windows XP, Windows 7 and Windows 8, or any other combination.
But if for any reason, we have eliminated some of these systems from our hard drive, we will also be interested in being able to eliminate said or said systems from the initial boot of our Windows 8 .
To do this, we are going to explain in this article, how you can eliminate with great ease and with graphic help, any operating system from your startup in Windows 8 with the help of the VisualBCD application.
Steps prior to removing an operating system from the boot list
The first step we must take is to make sure that the operating system that our computer is going to start by default is the one we really want, in our particular case, Windows 8.1. To do this, we will perform the following steps:
- Press the keyboard shortcut Windows + R and write in the program box to run sysdm .cpl
- Once the System Properties box is open, click on Advanced optionsand within this tab we go to the section Startup and recovery and click on Configuration
- In this window we make sure that the Default Operating System is the one we want our computer to start initially.
Once these steps have been completed, the next step we must carry out is to download the program Visual BCD Editor and install it on our system.
Remove an operating system from the boot list with VisualBCD
Once we have downloaded and installed VisualBCD, the next step we are going to do is open the program and start working with it to eliminate the operating systems we want from our boot sector:
- Once the program is open, we go to the left panel where we can read BcdStore inside we look for Loadersand in this branch we will find the operating systems that are installed in our boot sector. In our case we can appreciate Windows 8.1, Windows Recovery Environment and Windows 8.
- To remove, for example, our Windows 8 from the boot sector, press right buttonover its name and click on Delete selected object or press the delete button.
And thanks to these two simple steps, we will have eliminated the operating system(s) we want from our boot list Visual BCD Editor is a tool that allows you to perform many more advanced actions besides removing operating systems from the boot sector.
