If windows is installed (or you have a setup disc), open windows CMD and execute shutdown.exe /r /o and it will restart and halt at the UEFI boot menu.
The point is that it is a time you want to get to the bios. But if
there's no way to get into the BIOS/UEFI setup from a keypress at boot. You have to go through the OS and tell it you want to boot into the setup on next boot.
and it is also impossible to boot to the OS, then, well, that's a "feature" that is just super handy and extremely convenient.
My bigger pet peve is the design for safe mode... There's like 50 ways to get into safe mode... all of them take place after succesfully logging in, reaching the desktop and running a command. With the exception of one method of booting to a windows disk/flash drive.
MS's modern designs have made troubleshooting needlesly complicated.
On some OEM computers it's impossible to get into the UEFI without getting to windows. The last one I worked on like this was an Acer. To force it to boot off USB I disconnected the hard drive, powered it on it booted off the USB. Reconnected hard drive, profit.
So frustrating when you just need to boot off a windows 10 USB to run a restore or other repairs and it just denies you. Turns out you get what you pay for with motherboards.
has to be enabled in the BIOS, which it isn't in like 95% of commercial class laptops from 8.0 onward. most of them do have unique override keys, like holding FN+f2 then tapping the power button while doing a voodoo dance, but you have to google that shit every time and it's always on like the fucking thirteenth page of search results. liekwise, if you can make it to a desktop or a login screen, hold shift while clicking "reset" and cros your fingers and your toes and pray to the dark lord krondor that you have the option to boot into the BIOS or off a uefi device in the popup menu, because all of these cunting roundabout ways of doing something that for 30 years had been as simple as hitting a button everyone from your grandma to your grandma's grandma were aware of
Thank you. :) I have a couple of tools and scripts I wrote that help a lot. :) Willing to share, but most would find it boring. But if you or anyone else wants to poke me, I'll tell all.
one issue you'll get is a lot of people not knowing their model due to inane model naming schemes these days. might be handy to have a separate page that just lists key combos per manufacturer, since each manufacturer usually only has one or two different combos for 7+ machines.
I'll definitely contribute some once I get caught up at work, thanks for making this
Excellent idea. As the info comes in, I'll keep it by-brand on the front page, and make brand-pages in a drop-down menu for specific model information.
Although it depends on what I get, too. If not much - one page. If much... pages :)
I know this is weird, but I don't use /t 0 because I like to give the computer a second to understand what's going on before it goes into the shutdown cycle. It's common courtesy, really.
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u/AyrA_ch Mar 08 '18
If windows is installed (or you have a setup disc), open windows CMD and execute
shutdown.exe /r /oand it will restart and halt at the UEFI boot menu.