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I need to rant quickly about windows 8
Posted on 2/9/15 at 4:07 pm
Posted on 2/9/15 at 4:07 pm
Dude in the office just brought in his laptop to see if I could fix it...full of god knows what from installing toolbars etc. I have some items that won't uninstall so I reboot the machine and start pounding on f8 to get to safemode and see if I can uninstall it that way.
But...f8 no longer works to bring up the boot options, instead I have to look up how the frick to get into safemode on windows 8. "hold shift while pressing the restart button" I read. So I do it, and then the reboot starts and a menu pops up and I have to click through like 5 or so options before FINALLY finding safe mode. And then the fricking computer reboots again and asks me if I want to boot in to safe mode...
frick YOU MICROSOFT. I've hit f8 for 15 fricking years.
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But...f8 no longer works to bring up the boot options, instead I have to look up how the frick to get into safemode on windows 8. "hold shift while pressing the restart button" I read. So I do it, and then the reboot starts and a menu pops up and I have to click through like 5 or so options before FINALLY finding safe mode. And then the fricking computer reboots again and asks me if I want to boot in to safe mode...
frick YOU MICROSOFT. I've hit f8 for 15 fricking years.
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Thanks for listening
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Posted on 2/9/15 at 4:09 pm to Doldil
Ha. I had to figure this out today as well.
Posted on 2/9/15 at 4:43 pm to Doldil
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f8 no longer works to bring up the boot options
I had to google it the first time I worked on one. I'm pretty sure it has something to do with the fact that windows 8 boot too fast for the 'f8' prompt. I could be wrong though.
Posted on 2/9/15 at 4:49 pm to ashy larry
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I had to google it the first time I worked on one. I'm pretty sure it has something to do with the fact that windows 8 boot too fast for the 'f8' prompt. I could be wrong though.
Same. Especially with SSDs now. There's about a half second window.
Posted on 2/9/15 at 7:10 pm to JollyGreenGiant
Probably also has to do with the fact that PCs that come with Win8 probably also use UEFI instead of BIOS but that's just speculation.
Posted on 2/9/15 at 7:49 pm to LSshoe
Partially right, because some UEFI-based boards have disabled this by default even for Win 7. But mostly it's because Microsoft completely disabled it in Win 8 in favor of the unified advanced boot options/recovery UI.
You can reenable the F8 boot menu function by running an elevated command prompt and entering:
bcdedit /set {default} bootmenupolicy legacy
You can reenable the F8 boot menu function by running an elevated command prompt and entering:
bcdedit /set {default} bootmenupolicy legacy
Posted on 2/10/15 at 1:55 pm to Doldil
There is a script you can run to allow you to own the file and you can then delete it. Uninstall until something else needs to be deleted.
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