thank you Terry
Don't know - will check BCDedit. This sort of thing is what I suspect is the answer.
Addendum
The discussion in the referenced post suggests that I might arbitrarily make SOME change using the new EasyBCDedit, save it, and so long as some version of win8 was default boot (I...
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