Sorry this isn't a solution, I'm having this problem myself and just found this thread, and it looks promising so I'll have a look and return again with further updates on my attempts. Although I have an HP laptop, as opposed to the Toshiba one, and my BIOS is just plain blocked to me... I've only got like 3 or 4 changeable options in there.
But this is primarily a message to SOREATMICROSOFT...
I see where you come from. This system is completely unnecessary and completely frustrating, and as a tech-geek who has simply been surrounded in constantly failing, and easily broken, technology for the past 12 years or so, I'm with you on the point that Microsoft really need to get their heads together. Ever-swapping software and hardware instead of fixing what they currently have to make it stable and usable isn't a solution, let alone a temporary and/or permanent solution... However,
Your statement below is still uncalled for. You do realise that the people who created Windows 8 and 8.1 did so because they were being paid to, right?
Not every piece of functionality in the OS is under their command, and sometimes these functions come through an unexpected turn of events. I won't say that Microsoft are innocent of the action of restricting users from bumping 8/8.1 for an earlier version of Windows, but losing your cool like that isn't worth it.
You're not changing anything by throwing your mind, fingers and keyboard(s) away with how hard you were probably hitting the keys.
If you lose control, you make mistakes. If you make mistakes, you get punished for it. If you get punished for it, your only defense is to stick with the reason why you lost control. And if losing control over something you technically have no say, no position or no power to change (regardless of the masses that join together to demand change), it doesn't make you innocent.
Keep your cool, man. Just accept it. All technology is reaching its dead end by constantly being replaced when something stops working, and the replacement sacrificing 20 things that do work for 1 thing that doesn't. Work yourself around the system that fails, because you'll never get it better than what you have now... Maybe the older generation, but not now.
So yeah, points to be understood,
--Technology fails because it's always being replaced instead of fixed
--Not everyone involved in the division of Microsoft's Windows 8 are to be punished, regardless of how you feel (it's being prejudiced)
--Bill Gates is a money-grabbing thief, but was the one to invoke the creation of your favourite Windows OS', so you can't hate him indefinitely
--Losing control gets you nowhere, but blind to all sides, and those with control will ALWAYS back you into a corner until they crush you... And I doubt you wanna be part of Microsoft's Legal Department smoothie recipes.
Chill home-dawg. We're all in Noah's E-Ark here, won't help to rock the boat rather than help it stay afloat where possible
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