{"id":141,"date":"2013-08-21T03:32:42","date_gmt":"2013-08-21T08:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neosmart.net\/kb\/?page_id=141"},"modified":"2016-09-15T23:53:58","modified_gmt":"2016-09-16T04:53:58","slug":"changing-default-entry","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/wiki\/easybcd\/basics\/changing-default-entry\/","title":{"rendered":"Changing the default boot entry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When EasyBCD is configured with more than one entry, a menu will be presented to the user at boot-time with the list of entries installed, whereupon the user may choose which of these to boot into. The behavior of this menu depends on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/wiki\/easybcd\/basics\/setting-menu-timeout\/\">timeout options<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>When options 1 or 2 are selected (skip bootmenu or display a timeout respectively, see\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/wiki\/easybcd\/basics\/setting-menu-timeout\/\">Setting the Menu Timeout<\/a>\u00a0for more information), EasyBCD will automatically boot into the default OS when turning on or restarting your PC. This entry is referred to as being the\u00a0<em>default entry<\/em>\u00a0and is special from the rest.<\/p>\n<p>You can easily set the default entry in EasyBCD from the &#8220;Edit Boot Menu&#8221; page:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4743\" style=\"width: 593px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/09\/EasyBCD-edit-boot-menu-screen.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4743\" class=\"wp-image-4743 size-full colorbox-141\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/09\/EasyBCD-edit-boot-menu-screen.png?resize=583%2C488&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Changing the default boot entry in EasyBCD\" width=\"583\" height=\"488\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/neosmart.net\/wiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/09\/EasyBCD-edit-boot-menu-screen.png?w=583&amp;ssl=1 583w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/neosmart.net\/wiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/09\/EasyBCD-edit-boot-menu-screen.png?resize=300%2C251&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/neosmart.net\/wiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/09\/EasyBCD-edit-boot-menu-screen.png?resize=60%2C50&amp;ssl=1 60w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/neosmart.net\/wiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/09\/EasyBCD-edit-boot-menu-screen.png?resize=150%2C126&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 583px) 100vw, 583px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-4743\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Changing the default boot entry in EasyBCD<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Simply click the entry you would like to make default, and then tick the checkbox under the &#8220;Default&#8221; column. The text will then change from &#8220;No&#8221; to &#8220;Yes&#8221; for this entry, and revert all others to &#8220;No.&#8221; There can obviously be only one default entry at a time. The changes are applied automatically, there is no need to use the &#8220;Save Settings&#8221; button.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When EasyBCD is configured with more than one entry, a menu will be presented to the user at boot-time with the list of entries installed, whereupon the user may choose which of these to boot into. The behavior of this menu depends on the\u00a0timeout options. When options 1 or 2 are selected (skip bootmenu or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":505,"featured_media":0,"parent":136,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-141","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P3SlTq-2h","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/505"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4808,"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/141\/revisions\/4808"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}