Windows 10 Bring back the F8 Advanced Startup Menu

Neemobeer · Apr 17, 2016

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)
You need to change it to Legacy with the follow command. Change (3) to match your identifer if it is different
Reboot and you should now be able to the Advanced Startup Menu by pressing F8

Josephur · Apr 18, 2016

I've used this trick before, great thing to know

holdum333 · Apr 18, 2016

Hi @Neemobeer I created a thread about this and you said it wasn't needed any more! How funny is that??
How to program W10 Safe mode!

holdum333 · Apr 18, 2016

Not a problem! I'm not here to cause trouble. If you need to delete the above reply, I have no problem with that!

cursedboy · Apr 19, 2016

Thanks for sharing it, its really useful

patcooke · Feb 19, 2018

Very handy.

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