How to stop my machine booting from network

Hi, when restart my iMac I get a globe appear in the centre of the screen. This changes to the Apple icon after a few minutes and then boost up.
How do I get the machine to boot up without the globe.
Thanks in advance.
Chris

Check the setting in the Startup Disk pane of System Preferences.
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