WinXP Setup Starts at every boot

[Scout]

My friend has a fairly recent Dell with XP Home. Every time he restarts the system, before Windows loads it comes up with that screen where you can choose either WinXP Home or WinXP Setup, and setup is the default choice, so if he doesn't select, it goes looking for the WinXP setup CD. After it can't find the setup CD, he can cancel out of the setup and the computer boots and runs normally. If, when that choice screen comes up, he selects WinXP Home, it boots normally...

Anyone know how to shut off this option screen? Apparently this behavior started when he was getting some "runtime errors" in IE Explorer. I reset his IE Explorer security settings and that seems to have taken care of the runtime error, but this options screen at boot-up persists.

The system is fully up to date with Microsoft updates and has current antivirus protection up to date. It's a 3.4 GHz. P4 with 1 Gig of ram.

 

[sturm]

Right click My Computer, Properties , Advanced tab, startup and recovery click settings.
at the top under system startup youll see Default operating system. Click the drop down menu and select windows xp.
You also might set the time to display list of operating systems to like 5 seconds or just uncheck the box on the left of it. This will prevent it from showing at all.

 

[Scout]

Thanks, I'll have him give it a try.