Now a days it is very common to all to boot their PCs and Laptop on windows as well as Linux. Well, this is the first step to start migration from Windows to Linux and is acceptable. As the newbie of a Linux user and with the dual boot options there may be a common problem to all with the windows loading.

              The default menu list in the Grub will shows the Linux but not the Windows. So it is some what tricky to the new Linux user to observe the boot menu and to select the windows with in the predefined boot time.So, here is the solution to change the GRUB order and the time selection at the OS selection menu in GRUB.


  To set the Windows as the Default OS and the  OS selection time in GRUB, just follow the below steps.

• Boot into the Linux OS in your PC.
• During the boot time just observe the position of your windows os (first one will start with  zero'0') 

• Open the terminal by pressing Alt+Ctrl+T or Applications--> Accessories-->Terminal
• In the terminal type the following command

                        sudo gedit /etc/default/grub

• Now it will opens the grub file and in that file find the following 

                   GRUB_DEFAULT

                   GRUB_TIMEOUT

• Set the  GRUB_DEFAULT value with windows OS position in the grub menu (if it was at the 5 position give the value as 4, why because the first one will start with zero)
• set the  GRUB_TIMEOUT as you wish which is in sec.

           For example:  GRUB_DEFAULT=4                                   GRUB_TIMEOUT=30

• save the grub file and close it.
• Now run the following command in terminal

                                  sudo update-grub

• Now restart your PC and you can see the modified boot choice time and you can directly boot in to the Windows OS.                                  

Note: in the above commands all are case sensitive.

That's it....from now onwards you can boot in to the Windows OS as default.

Thank you 

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