I am still new to Ubuntu, in the sense of how to go about installing and finding programs. I dually installed Ubuntu 16.04 alongside my Windows 7 professional. I want to play with Ubuntu till i can work with it, in the meantime i want my laptop to boot directly into Windows 7. At the moment the Ubuntu platform is the nr 1 on the bootorder list when the computer starts up. If I am not present to manually select windows, it automatically boots to Ubuntu. So, I have to be present after starting up, to manually choose Windows, a matter of irritation! How can I change that? Is there a program I can install to change the boot order? ? How? Step by step please for an stupid like me!
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5Possible duplicate of How do I change the GRUB boot order? – Martin Thornton May 03 '16 at 10:14
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Open a terminal, type sudo nano /etc/default/grub, and press Enter.
In the file that opens up find the line GRUB_DEFAULT. Now the value of that line should be set to 0, change it to 1.
Save the file pressing Ctrl+o, press Enter to confirm, and Ctrl+x to exit.
Run the command sudo update-grub.
The next time you restart the PC, if you don't touch anything when the boot menu shows, it should automatically start Windows.
Note that the value of GRUB_DEFAULT starts the OS identified in the boot menu starting from 0.
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Your answer did the thing. I only had to play with the value. The Windows 10 were listed nr 6 on the boot menu, so I entered 6, which did not work. Then I entered 5 and it did the job! Thanks!! Solved!!! – Jan May 09 '16 at 07:39
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How do I go about to mark it as answered? Or as accepted? I dont see any place to do that. – Jan May 19 '16 at 17:16
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