When you get there, scroll down to the bottom of the page, and look for this item in a little bullet list: "Download free for limited non-commercial use" and click it to start your download. Install the program in the usual way, then click its icon to open it, and in the left column, click on "Edit Boot Menu"........
Highlight the operating system you prefer as the Default, and add a check mark in its little box. That will automatically remove the one from the former default, and once you've made your selection, they tell you 'everything happens automatically and you don't have to press Save Settings'. But in this case you DO need to press Save Settings at the bottom of the window.
Here's how it looks now that you're done. Do a shutdown and re-start to check it. As Windows 8 comes 'out of the box' it shows you its own dual-boot screen during start-up, with Windows Developer Preview in the top box and your other (Windows 7) operating system below in another box, and you click one to start that system. After using EasyBCD, the Win-8 boot selector screen is simply reversed, with Windows 7 now in the top box and Developer Preview under it. Not much difference, really. But if you go into Windows 7, it will now present you with its own version of the dual-boot selector, and you can make your choices there as well, and that wasn't available before. So this wasn't entirely an exercise in futility, because now both operating systems are displaying the dual booting menu, instead of having it only appearing on Windows 8's system.
I saw a complaint in a forum about that, and this is the cure. Put EasyBCD onto both O/S's and configure it in both and you will solve the problem of the missing dual boot menu in the one operating system. Trust me - would I lie to you?
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