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How to clean up and remove menu items from the Grub menu in Ubuntu 10.04

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I like Ubuntu, but one thing that has always annoyed me about it was that it adds a lot of different Grub menu items that I never use. This isn't the end of the world, but I like to have my menus nice and neat, and this menu is not nice and neat at all.

photograph of the Grub menu polluted with unused menu items

The only thing I currently use Grub for is to choose if I want to boot into Windows, Ubuntu, or any other operating system I might have installed at the time. This tutorial will show you how to remove the old versions of the Linux kernel, the recovery mode options, and remove the memory test (memtest86+) options.

  1. Removing the memory test (memtest86+)
  2. Removing the old Linux kernels
  3. Removing the recovery mode options
  4. Changing the default timeout duration, default Grub option, and Grub resolution