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Richard T. Wagner wants to remove Windows 7 from a dual-boot PC, and keep Windows 10. His version of Windows 7 doesn't even mould.

Gushing fourfold versions of Windows on one and only PC gives you more options, but sooner or later you'll believably need to go backmost to only 1. And when you do, you'll soon exhaust of that dual-boot menu that pops up altogether of the time.

You can easily turn over off the Boot Menu, only removing the previous version of Windows can be dangerous. These instruction manual assume you have Windows 10 and want to keep it. With slight modifications, they'll work with other versions.

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To kill iron heel Menu, right-click Start and select System. In the Organization window's left pane, select Advanced system settings.

In the resulting System Properties panel's Advanced tab, click the Settings button in the Startup and Recovery section (the third and most recently Settings button happening the tab).

This brings up the Startup and Recovery dialog box. Draw steady the default operating system is Windows 10. Then uncheck Time to display list of operating system.

Reboot, and you'll find that the menu is gone.

You Crataegus laevigata wishing to remove the Windows 7 partition as well, but that could be dangerous. Before you try information technology, puddle sure no data files are on it sectionalisatio. Likewise, create an fancy relief of the entire drive onto an international hard crusade. That will allow you to recover everything if something goes malfunctioning.

Once you've taken these precautions, right-click Come out and select Disk Direction. Identify the Windows 7 partition; then right-click information technology and select Delete Volume. Then confirm your decision with a Yes.

The partition volition beryllium replaced with "Free space," just it's in all likelihood non in truth exempt. Right-click that Uncommitted space and prize Delete Partition. And again, corroborate your decision.

Proper-click the partition you want to increase (It must be touching the empty space), and select Extend Volume. Follow the wizard.