each time i log on I first have to chose my operating system and i don,t have two,just one gets to be pain in butt,
don,t know what happened just recently started doing this!
please advise, thanks, dwcarl@cccexpress.com

   The boot.ini file is responsible for.
   Boot.ini is usually located in C:\.  If a different drive is the boot drive, then it will be located in its root (in other words, if the drive is D, it will be in D:\ ).
   Find boot.ini in Windows Explorer (to open Windows Explorer, right click on the Start button and select Explore from the popup menu).  If you do not see the boot.ini file, change your settings in Windows Explorer (in the Tools - Folder Options menu, View tab, Advanced Settings) so that the "Hide protected operating system files" checkbox is not checked and the "Show hidden files and folders" checkbox is checked.
   Or you can type, "msconfig" in Run and go to the BOOT.INI tab.
   Boot.ini can be opened with Notepad.  Its contents should look something like this:

[boot loader]
timeout=0
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS

[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition" /noexecute=AlwaysOff /fastdetect
C:\CMDCONS\BOOTSECT.DAT="Microsoft Windows Recovery Console" /cmdcons

   The [boot loader] section tells your computer what to do when it comes to the startup screen.  The lines under [operating systems] are the operating systems that the startup screen lists for you to select.
   If timeout is not 0, the startup screen will wait the timeout amount of seconds for you to select something.  After that amount of time, the default setting is selected and Windows starts.
   If default is not specified or is wrong, the startup screen will wait for you to make a choice of operating systems.  This sounds like what is wrong in your case.  The default setting should match one of the [operating systems] items.  So as you see above, the default setting is multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS (this is actually the location of the Windows directory on your computer) and that matches up with multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition" /noexecute=AlwaysOff /fastdetect under [operating systems].  If any of the numbers in multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS or the word, WINDOWS, are different in the two settings, they will not match up.
   When a hard drive is added to a computer, those numbers sometimes change.  But if both settings are wrong, you will get an error message about hal.dll, so I suspect that somehow only the default settings is wrong.

   Does that solve your problem?