Question How to prevent the Boot Menu automatically appearing ?

[smalltech]

I want to go into safe mode during PC power on. After power on PC, before windows logo appear by default if I press F8 I will not be able to see boot options to go into safe mode.

My understanding is I need to manually enable F8 key to be able to access advanced boot options and safe mode during power up PC.

I have done "OPTION ONE To Enable or Disable F8 Advanced Boot Options using displaybootmenu Command, step 3" in this article Enable or Disable F8 Advanced Boot Options in Windows 10

Now whenever I power on PC I will see this Windows Boot Manager screen. It automaticall appears for about 30 seconds without me pressing anything, without pressing F8 during start up, before the Windows logo appears:

https://imgur.com/LvaLVbG

View: https://i.imgur.com/LvaLVbG.png


Is this suppose to happen after doing "OPTION ONE To Enable or Disable F8 Advanced Boot Options using displaybootmenu Command, step 3" in the article?

How to make this screen appear only when I press F8 during power up PC ?
Thanks

 

[Colif]

Here is another way to try to get to Safe Mode.

Boot to the Command Prompt of your boot disk (see methods to create below). Enter these BOLD commands and press ENTER after each.

(Note the colon after C with no space; then the spaces which are important - one after T before / & T before { & } before B & Y before L)

C:

BCDEDIT /SET {DEFAULT} BOOTMENUPOLICY LEGACY

EXIT

You are back to the boot screen -> Shutdown the computer.

Boot back up and "immediately" start tapping F8 (That means power button - then F8).

Hopefully that should get you into Safe Mode.

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To reverse that you can use the same steps and type these (again note spaces)

C:

BCDEDIT /SET {DEFAULT} BOOTMENUPOLICY STANDARD

Restart but F8 will not work now.

note: pretty sure you can do this inside windows, no need to boot from a USB installer to do it.