Solved Is there a Windows Boot Manager?

rlsj

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Running Windows 8.1 on an HP 64bit PC. Recently installed Ubuntu as a co-resident OS. Ubuntu's Boot Manager makes Ubuntu the first choice to load at boot time, but I use Windows a lot more often. Is there a boot manager that I can install to make Windows the first choice?

Thank you for your attention.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows-8.1
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    HP 110-023W
    CPU
    Intel duo 64bit 2.66 MHz
    Memory
    6 GB
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Hannspree 23" touch
    Screen Resolution
    1920 x 1080
    Hard Drives
    SATA 1 TB
    Keyboard
    Std
    Mouse
    Logitech Trackball M570
    Internet Speed
    15 Mbps
    Browser
    Mozilla Firefox
    Antivirus
    BullGuard
I figured it out. You have to make the change under Ubuntu.

Change to /etc/default and sudo edit the file, grub. In the editor change GRUB_DEFAULT=0 to GRUB_DEFAULT=n, where n is the number of the Windows OS line, "2" in my case.

After saving that file you must run
sudo grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
to change the actual grub configuration file. Note that the above command is for Ubuntu. I don't know if it works elsewhere.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows-8.1
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    HP 110-023W
    CPU
    Intel duo 64bit 2.66 MHz
    Memory
    6 GB
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Hannspree 23" touch
    Screen Resolution
    1920 x 1080
    Hard Drives
    SATA 1 TB
    Keyboard
    Std
    Mouse
    Logitech Trackball M570
    Internet Speed
    15 Mbps
    Browser
    Mozilla Firefox
    Antivirus
    BullGuard
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