Ghost Menu Entries
Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2026 8:32 am
Hello, I have a rather strange problem and I’m hoping someone can shed some light on what is happening.
My system is Asus ROG Strix Z590 with Intel core I7 processor, Nvidea Geforce 1060 graphics card, Philips 4k monitor and 6 NVME drives. The only other things connected aside from Ethernet are my Logitech USB keyboard and trackball. I’m using BootIT UI 2.10 and running two windows 11 Pro installations, one windows 10 pro installation and one Linux Mint on a single 1TB NVME drive under UEFI.
Now the strange thing is that everything works fine except that sometimes, not always but most times, when I start/reboot the machine a new entry named Microsoft appears in the BootIT menu. This entry is just garbage and if selected drops you into a blue screen of death. I ignored the extra entries for a couple of days and ended up with 5 extra Microsoft entries in the menu.
The NVME was a new drive when I installed the OS’s and I’ve tried other drives with the same result. I’ve tried removing all but one drive. I’ve tried changing the drive to other slots and only having one OS installed. I’ve tried clearing the drive many times, reinstalling BootIT UI and reinstalling the OS’s, nothing seems to stop the ghost Microsoft entries appearing in my BootIT menu.
Does anyone have any ideas?
Thanks for reading
Odos
My system is Asus ROG Strix Z590 with Intel core I7 processor, Nvidea Geforce 1060 graphics card, Philips 4k monitor and 6 NVME drives. The only other things connected aside from Ethernet are my Logitech USB keyboard and trackball. I’m using BootIT UI 2.10 and running two windows 11 Pro installations, one windows 10 pro installation and one Linux Mint on a single 1TB NVME drive under UEFI.
Now the strange thing is that everything works fine except that sometimes, not always but most times, when I start/reboot the machine a new entry named Microsoft appears in the BootIT menu. This entry is just garbage and if selected drops you into a blue screen of death. I ignored the extra entries for a couple of days and ended up with 5 extra Microsoft entries in the menu.
The NVME was a new drive when I installed the OS’s and I’ve tried other drives with the same result. I’ve tried removing all but one drive. I’ve tried changing the drive to other slots and only having one OS installed. I’ve tried clearing the drive many times, reinstalling BootIT UI and reinstalling the OS’s, nothing seems to stop the ghost Microsoft entries appearing in my BootIT menu.
Does anyone have any ideas?
Thanks for reading
Odos
