Recent content by MaryAmanda

In effect, does it actually matter? Interesting. Because my first few times rebooting (with safe mode as a boot option), after making that change (to legacy), resulted in having the Win 8 GUI boot menu. But that's in a VM where I do all sorts of crazy experimentation. Then inexplicably it...

Perhaps that varies by system, because for me it hasn't.

Get back legacy safe mode access win 8 :dinesh: Run Command prompt as Admin and type (copy/paste the following line): bcdedit /set {default} bootmenupolicy legacy press enter F8 will now work as it used to. No need to do all the other stuff. to revert: bcdedit /set {default}...

Run Command prompt as Admin and type (copy/paste the following line): bcdedit /set {default} bootmenupolicy legacy press enter F8 works normally (as in Win7) during boot. to revert: bcdedit /set {default} bootmenupolicy standard