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How to remove duplicate entries in Grub menu?

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After today's update, Ubuntu asked me to replace some files and I blindly accepted. After I restarted PC after the update, I saw duplicate entries in the grub menu:

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Here's the image of the grub customizer.

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Apparently, Grub Customizer can not save edited information.

Is there a way to remove duplicates from Ubuntu 12.04 grub menu and set Windows 7 on first position?

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answered 3 Years ago ardtry · Accepted Answer

While a sudo update-grub2 should remove the duplicate enties, to bring the Windows menu-item at first position additionally do :

sudo gedit /boot/grub/grub.cfg

Cut the portion of text starting from

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ###

menuentry "Windows 7...
to
}

### END /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ###
and pest it just before
menuentry 'Ubuntu, with Linux..

save the file and reboot.

You have to perform steps(1-4) every time grub-pc package-update or a kernel-update happens to keep Windows menu-item at first place.