Hi, I have a compaq presario and I have a new screen durring startup. When my system boots up It goes through the normal compaq startup screen then goes to a different screen asking me to Please select the system I want to start. 1:Windows XP  2:Windows XP Recovery Console. I have to either wait for the countdown or hit any key to BOOT into Windows. How can I do away with this screen? I Thank You for any help that you may give.

PS.This started after I did a cleaning job with ACE Utilites V.3, I did create a restore point using this program and tried to undo the changes I made with no luck.Go to start -> run -> msconfig. This will bring up the System Configuration Utility. Go to the BOOT.INI tab and then click "Check All Boot Paths". If it comes up saying it found a bad one or something similar then just go ahead and tell it to fix it. Can't remember exactly what it says but it's pretty straight forward. If that doesn't work post back here and we'll have to go a more detailed route.You need to delete the recovery console entry from your boot.ini file ,because Msconfig will show it as a valid boot path. open you boot ini and it should look like this , only under operating systems you will have 2 when you only want one , so delete the line with the recovery console version

Back Up your Boot.ini first, if you break it windows wont boot any more

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=MULTI(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetectIf you're mainly concerned about eliminating the delay during startup, you can simply lower the time that that screen pauses before going on.  You can set it on 0 if you want.  To do this, right click on My Computer, select Properties, and select the tab labeled Advanced.  Click on Settings, under Startup and Recovery.  On the Startup and Recovery screen, change the setting as desired.  This might be a better approach than deleting Recovery Console from the boot.ini file.Ok, I went into System Configuration Utility and click Check All Boot Paths and it did show the recovery console as a bad path so I clicked delete, rebooted and screen popped up saying I was running in selective mode, clicked the box saying dont show this again and THINGS are perfect. Any ideas why this happened in the first place? Thanks everyone for help.