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When you install Ubuntu or Linux Mint or elementary OS along with

Windows in dual boot mode, Linux becomes the default OS. At the boot
time, on the grub screen, if you do not choose Windows for login within 10
seconds (default Grub timeout), it boots up into the Linux.
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You can change the grub behavior to make Windows your default OS in dual Newletter Ubuntu
boot by editing the grub con guration le. While this is my preferred way, I
can understand that as a regular Windows user you might not want to use
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I was asked by a few readers to provide a tutorial on using a GUI tool to

change the boot order to make Windows default OS instead of Linux. And
hence, I came up with this article to show you how to change grub boot
order in Linux.

Change Grub Boot Order with Grub Customizer

Startup Manager was the best GUI tool to con gure grub. However, it has
been discontinued. The void of Startup Manager is (somewhat) lled by
Grub Customizer. While Startup Manager was just focused on giving you
few options to con gure the boot menu, Grub Customizer focuses on all
the aspects of customizing Grub, and hence it is a little complicated for
beginners.

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Install Grub Customizer in Ubuntu-based distributions

I have used Ubuntu in this tutorial but you can use any other Linux
distribution based on Ubuntu such as Linux Mint, elementary OS, Linux Lite
etc. The tutorial should also work on all Ubuntu versions including 14.04,
16.04 and 18.04. All Windows versions including Windows 10, 8 and 7
should work ne.

Install Grub Customizer in Ubuntu using a PPA:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:danielrichter2007/grub-customizer

sudo apt update
sudo apt install grub-customizer

How To Use Grub Customizer:

Once installed, search for Grub Customizer in the menu and open it.

Start Grub Customizer

It requires the admin password because you are dealing with an important
con guration that requires root privileges. Enter your password.

After that, you’ll see a screen where you can access the con guration. You
can see that Windows lies at the bottom after so many Ubuntu options.

All you have to do is to move Windows over the rst Ubuntu. You can
use the arrow option from the top menu for this task.

Select Windows Boot Manager and move it to the top

Once done, you should have Windows on the top of this list. At this point,
you should save this con guration.

Once Windows is on the top, save your changes.

This will edit the Grub menu and you can see the changed boot order at the
next restart.

Now you’ll boot into Windows by default

Bonus tip: Reduce the grub boot time

If you do not interact with the grub menu at the boot time, it takes 10
seconds to boot into the default operating system. You can use Grub
Customizer and reduce this boot time to something of your choice like 3
seconds or 5 seconds.

You can do this from General Settings tab in Grub Customizer.

It’s an optional tip and will help you in reduce boot time (if you don’t
manually press the enter key).

Reduce the default boot time in Grub

I hope the tutorial helped you to change the grub boot order in Ubuntu and
other Linux distribution and make Windows the default OS in your dual
boot system. Grub Customizer is an amazingly simple tool for this task.

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