bjhannaway

To a total novice like me that was very useful indeed. You are too humble !!! Brian

All I did was tell him how to open CMD 😀

Thanks to ALL. Very much appreciated - I am 78 years old. Looks like you can teach an old dog new tricks !!

That was garlins code, my instructions

That's because you looking at them while running a different OS. Unless you manually change it when setting up Windows ,the OS that is...

Again, thanks to everyone. Your help has been just great. To: Antspants: I have applied your code. Thanks for the "idiot proof"...

Hi Brian, I see that you have your timeout period is 5 seconds. Try increasing it to 10 or 20 seconds. This might avoid your PC...

To all: Thanks again - much appreciated. I have disabled Hibernate in both W10 and W11. Garlin, I will enter the code above - thanks...

Just for info. I'm dual booting on three laptops, (RTM and Canary versions of Win 11). Hibernate disabled via 'powercfg -h off' to stop...

Open windows search, search for CMD, click on the icon and chose run as administrator. Type or copy paste these one at a time pressing...

To: Garlin: Apologies, I missed you in my prior message. Thank you for the code. However, please note that I am in no way a computer...

First of all, many thanks to everyone. My replies to each as follows: To Breton Drive C and Drive D are partitions. I set up a...

That can be set in System Configuration

Hi bjhannaway, Can you tell me how much time do you get before your PC chooses an OS? Kind regards, tecknot

bcdedit /set {bootmgr} displaybootmenu yes bcdedit /set {bootmgr} timeout 30