A list of all the startup programs displays with a check box next to each one. NOTE: If you are using Windows XP, open the Run dialog box from the Start menu, type “msconfig.exe” in the Open edit box, and click OK.Ĭlick the Startup tab on the System Configuration main window. When you see “msconfig.exe,” click on it or press Enter, if it is highlighted. The firmware on these devices will continue to support this functionality from the POST screen as it did in the past.To run MSConfig, open the Start menu and type “msconfig.exe” (without the quotes) in the Search box. As he notes, "legacy hardware that was made before Windows 8 will not have these new UEFI-provided menu features (booting to firmware settings and booting directly to a device). One final note of import: all of the changes discussed by Chris Clark relate specifically to newer PCs with UEFI BIOS.
Now if you want the long, fully detailed version, check out Chris' comprehensive writeup over on the MSDN blog. In short, while you'll lose the ability to alter boot and BIOS settings before the OS is up and running, you'll still be able to do so once you're inside it via the Advanced startup section of the General options menu, and if you can't reach that point, the bootup settings will automatically show up for you, recognizing that they're needed. A new solution is clearly needed and Microsoft's response has been trifold: firstly, all the various settings that may have been distributed across troubleshooting, developer, and startup menus are now being consolidated into one boot options group secondly, that menu will appear automatically anytime something prevents Windows from booting up correctly and thirdly, Microsoft is making it easy to access said repository of options by giving you multiple ways of bringing it up even when there's nothing wrong with the PC. The current ability to press F8 while your PC is powering up and the ever-familiar BIOS menu prompt of "Press F2 to enter setup" will both be missing from Windows 8 computers, simply because the hardware and software have advanced to such an extent as to leave users with too little time to access them.Ĭhris Clark, program manager at Microsoft's User Experience team, notes in a Building Windows 8 blog post that users are now left with a tiny 200ms window in which to signal to a booting PC that they want to interrupt what it's doing and make changes to its boot setup. Did you know that an SSD-equipped Windows 8 PC can boot up in under seven seconds? Watch the video below if you don't believe it, Microsoft has really optimized the hell out of the startup operations of its next OS - although that has come at a somewhat amusing cost: you no longer get enough time to interrupt the boot process.
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