Share your brilliance with the world by clicking the Add a Tip button... write a tip and win money!

Tip Details Add a Related Tip
Rate as: Positive Negative

Setting Windows as the default when dual-booting Ubuntu

After you install a dual-boot of Ubuntu, Ubuntu will set itself up so that it is now the default operating system in the Grub loader. If you want to set things up so that Windows is the default operating system, do the following:

- Boot into Ubuntu (this shouldn't be too hard).

- Run the following command: sudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst

- In the file, look for the entry called default. It will be set to 0, like so: default 0. Change the 0 to be the number of the Windows boot sector (usually 4).
Rating: no ratings, 0 total Votes
Categories: windows ubuntu
Added: on Apr 16, 2007 at 5:19 pm
Added By: an anonymous user

Comments on this Tip

Add a Comment
There are no comments for this tip
Your Comment:
(how to format)
Rate This Tip:

Verify Humanity:
Sorry, we know it's annoying, but please enter the characters shown in the image to the left so that we know you're an actual person and not an evil spammer. Thanks.
       

Related Tips

Restore grub after installing windows

94% positive, 1 comment - last added on Apr 19, 2007 at 2:49 pm
– Tip added by an anonymous user on Mar 08, 2007 at 4:06 pm

Dual booting Vista and Ubuntu

Categories: windows Vista linux ubuntu
100% positive, 0 comments
– Tip added by an anonymous user on Jul 03, 2007 at 8:53 am
Link: apcmag.com

restoring grub

100% positive, 0 comments
– Tip added by an anonymous user on Apr 25, 2007 at 6:50 am

Speed Up Windows XP Startup

100% positive, 0 comments
– Tip added by StevesTechGuide on Apr 16, 2008 at 12:34 pm
Link: stevestechguide.com

Searching a folder in Vista

100% positive, 0 comments
– Tip added by an anonymous user 6 days, 8 hours ago

Change System Restore Times in Vista

Categories: Windows Vista
100% positive, 0 comments
– Tip added by an anonymous user on May 07, 2008 at 7:59 am

Vista: map a networked drive

Categories: windows Vista
100% positive, 0 comments
– Tip added by an anonymous user on May 05, 2008 at 8:45 am

Setting the behavior when the lid is closed on your Ubuntu laptop

100% positive, 0 comments
– Tip added by an anonymous user on May 02, 2008 at 4:07 pm

New defrag options in Vista SP1

100% positive, 0 comments
– Tip added by an anonymous user on Apr 30, 2008 at 7:47 am

Display a custom message when logging in Vista

100% positive, 0 comments
– Tip added by an anonymous user on Apr 20, 2008 at 9:29 am

Copying large file over mapped drives

100% positive, 0 comments
– Tip added by geekalot on Apr 16, 2008 at 7:50 am

How To Share Files On Windows XP

100% positive, 0 comments
– Tip added by an anonymous user on Apr 10, 2008 at 6:46 am
Link: stevestechguide.com

Turn off Vista auto-detect on folders

100% positive, 0 comments
– Tip added by geekalot on Apr 09, 2008 at 7:17 am

How to turn off thumbnail previews in Vista

100% positive, 0 comments
– Tip added by an anonymous user on Mar 31, 2008 at 3:26 pm

Opening Windows Explorer Collapsed

Categories: windows
100% positive, 0 comments
– Tip added by an anonymous user on Mar 25, 2008 at 3:34 am

Set the Windows Mail storage folder

Categories: Vista windows email
no ratings, 0 comments
– Tip added by an anonymous user on May 07, 2008 at 11:10 am

Get the volume mixer in the Vista Taskbar

no ratings, 0 comments
– Tip added by an anonymous user on May 06, 2008 at 11:28 am

Showing file extensions in Vista

Categories: windows Vista Explorer
no ratings, 0 comments
– Tip added by an anonymous user on Apr 30, 2008 at 1:21 pm

Find out what URLs your computer is going to

no ratings, 0 comments
– Tip added by an anonymous user on Apr 10, 2008 at 3:57 pm
Link: www.donationcoder.com

How to uninstall Vista SP1

Categories: windows Vista
0% positive, 0 comments
– Tip added by an anonymous user on Mar 28, 2008 at 2:40 pm

Related Categories