How to Change the Default Operating System Entry

To view the current default operating system entry, run the following command and look for the default line.

Windows Boot Manager
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identifier 	  {bootmgr}
device 		  partition=\Device\
                  HarddiskVolume1
description 	  Windows Boot
                  Manager
locale 		  en-US
inherit 	  {globalsettings}
default 	  {current}
resumeobject 	  {24a500f3-12ea-11db-a536-b7db70c06ac2}
displayorder 	  {current}
toolsdisplayorder {memdiag}
timeout 	  30

To change the default operating system entry, first run the following command to view the existing entries and make note of the identifier for the entry that you want to be the default.

Then run the following command to set a new default (where <id> is the identifier for the new entry).

For example, to configure the Windows Boot Manager to start the previous installation of Windows XP by default (which is identified as {ntldr}), run the following command.

To configure the currently running instance of Windows 7 as the default, run the following command.