Acronis disk director suite 9.0 User Manual

Working with Acronis OS Selector

Acronis OS Selector Main Window

The key part of the main window, Operating systems, contains a list of
operating systems available for loading on this PC. Acronis OS Selector
automatically determines all operating systems installed and lists them in the
boot menu at PC bootup and in the Acronis OS Selector main window under
Windows.

The left part of the window, the sidebar, first introduced in Windows XP, contains
the following sections also available in the main menu and customizable
toolbar:

Operations

This section includes actions available for selected operating systems or their
shortcuts (see section 7.9 «Using shortcuts»).
•  Boot – boots the selected operating system or its configuration (shortcut)
•  Set Default – sets the default operating system
•  Set password – protects the selected operating system with a password
•  Properties – sets properties of the selected operating system

Edit

This section provides the following means of operating system and shortcut
management:
•  Hide – hides a selected operating system or shortcut from the boot menu
•  Create Shortcut – creates a shortcut for a selected operating system
•  Delete – deletes a selected operating system or shortcut