After deleting a VHDX Native Boot of W10 Eval, my main W10 Pro is booting with 'Selective startup'.

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  1. secretromeo

    secretromeo MDL Addicted

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    I have Windows 10 Pro installed on my computer. I wanted to try a few programs but did not want to install them on my main OS so I created a VHDX Native Boot copy of Windows 10 Enterprise Evaluation and tried those programs out. I could have used a virtual machine but I thought Native Booting a VHDX would be easier. After I was done, I went back to my main OS, opened System Configuration (msconfig.exe) -> Boot and then deleted the boot entry for Windows 10 Enterprise Evaluation, deleted the VHDX fle and rebooted. Once the system booted up, I went back to System Configuration and strangely under the General tab it was showing 'Selective startup' checked as the Startup selection. I unchecked it and checked 'Normal startup' instead but as soon as I checked it, under the Boot tab, the old & now deleted boot entry for the VHDX Native Boot Windows 10 Enterprise Evaluation appeared again!!

    Can someone please tell me what's going on? Is there a way I can completely get rid of that VHDX Native Boot entry and start my main OS with 'Normal startup'?
     
  2. #2 Deleted member 1385001, Nov 3, 2021
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    try Bootice by Pauly & remove every entry except your main drive os.
     
  3. Fckr

    Fckr MDL Member

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    Use bcdedit to delete the boot menu entry that points to the vhdx file.
     
  4. Dude Guyman

    Dude Guyman MDL Senior Member

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    Windows 10 (all versions) has ALWAYS booted in "selective startup" mode for me. It doesn't seem to affect anything, but I think it is normal behavior at this point. The only thing I can figure is if any driver component or whatever starts with Windows via "...Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run" section in the registry, or service, etc. it becomes "selective".
     
  5. abbodi1406

    abbodi1406 MDL KB0000001

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    It started with Windows 8.1 for me
    and yes, never had issue with that