Type bcdedit in the command window and press ‘enter’. Windows 8, 8.1 and 10 users after pressing Win+X button together, must select “ Command Prompt(Admin)“. The earlier version of Windows users should type ‘cmd’ at the search box and right click on the correct result, then select “ run as administrator” option.
Method #1: Remove Earlier Version of Windows from Boot Menu Let see how to remove windows earlier version option from boot menu. This is a very common problem of Windows XP, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows 8/8.1, Windows 10 and Ubuntu. Third-party utility like ‘EasyBCD’ can perform the removal of OS name from boot menu. ‘ BCDEDIT‘ plays a perfect role to remove the option. There are couple of ways to delete “ Earlier Version of Windows” option from the boot menu entry. So, it is very necessary to remove the earlier version of Windows option from the boot section to get a hassle free windows start-up experience. If the user chooses the other option at boot time, he/she will get either an error message, or the system restarts to the same boot manager window. A dual boot PC user may face the same issue even after deleting any of the installed operating system. Otherwise, the system stuck at windows boot manager screen. At every start up, a user needs to choose the option of the new installation manually. Users will continue to get both the options (new version and older version) even after several days or weeks of the Windows up-gradation. When a Windows user upgrade the OS from an older version to a newer version (suppose, from Windows 7 to Windows 8/8.1/10), he/she might get the “earlier version of Windows” option at boot menu during start up.
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