Windows 10 Bring back the F8 Advanced Startup Menu

This tutorial shows you how to enable the old "press F8 to get the Advanced Start Menu" to be able to get to safe mode.

  • Open an elevated command prompt (Press [Windows key] type "cmd", right click Command Prompt and select "Run as Administrator")
  • Type bcdedit /enum to display your boot entries
  • Look at the Windows Boot Loader entry identifer (1) and make note of it
  • You will also notice the bootmenupolicy is set to Standard (2)
  • bootmenu1.png

  • You need to change it to Legacy with the follow command. Change (3) to match your identifer if it is different
  • bootmenu2.png

  • Reboot and you should now be able to the Advanced Startup Menu by pressing F8
 
I've used this trick before, great thing to know :)
 
Not a problem! I'm not here to cause trouble. If you need to delete the above reply, I have no problem with that!
 
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