![]() If this doesn’t fix it, then “Windows Recovery Environment” will kick-in and launch “Startup Repair” tool. Take this as an example, in the case the OS completely fails to load, it will try a second time. In certain occasions, Windows 8 can detect and automatically apply actions to specific problems. It’s worth noting that legacy hardware will not have this option in the menu. This option is located in the “Troubleshooting” node, within the “Advanced options” group. Not only you can configure your PC to boot from an alternate device where UEFI is present, but from the same new menu you can also request to boot into the UEFI firmware BIOS. ![]() Now Windows 8 also includes code to detect if the OS didn’t load successfully, when this happens the “failover behavior” will be triggered and will automatically start the “boot options menu”, that according to Microsoft, it is “highly robust and validated environment”.Īnd finally for those times when nothing is wrong, but for some reason you need to access the boot options, there are several ways within the operating system to get to them - More on this later… And you’ll do this with the option “Use a device”. Windows 8 now has all the options consolidated in a single menu, which is called the “boot options menu”, there you have access to all the full set of repair tools and ways to change Windows Startup Settings behavior such as enabling debugging, disable driver signing, boot in safe mode, recovery and several other advanced boot options.įrom the same menu you can also access the BIOS setup (only with Windows 8 UEFI-based firmware), and change to boot from other devices like a USB drive or network. There is only 200 ms between the PC POST and to the time that “Windows boot manager” takes over - this window is too short for a keystroke to be detected, but there are different solutions to the various scenarios when troubleshooting Windows 8 is necessary. In the Building Windows 8 blog the company explains that Windows 8 boots very quickly and using the keyboard to access the OS troubleshooting tools is no longer a reliable option. In this article you’ll learn the three ways Microsoft included to access Windows 8 boot options menu, plus what the new menu has to offer and how Windows will handle unsuccessful boots.Īs I mentioned in the previous article, Windows 8 users will need to get used to the idea that they won’t longer be able to directly interrupt the PC boot sequence with F8, nor with Shift+F8 to get to the advanced tools such as safe mode in the Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE), or F2, F12, or Esc to access the motherboard’s BIOS configuration - all this is going to change.
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