Windows 10 Advanced Startup Settings

A few posts ago – is that proper? – we showed you an easy way to get to the Advanced Boot Menu, and you can read all about that here.

Today were going to show you one important thing you can do from the Advanced Boot Menu – how to get to the all-important Startup Settings.

First, though, let us refresh your memory.

There are two ways to get to the Advanced Boot Menu. Once involves six clicks, the other involves holding down the shift key and 3 clicks.

Way Number One: Click Start, click Settings,  click Update & Security, Click Recovery, Click Advanced Startup, then click “Restart now”…see?

Way Number Two: Click Start,  hold down your Shift Key, click Power Options, and while holding down the Shift key, click Restart.

Whether you use way #1 or way #2 you end up (after your PC restarts) staring at the Advanced Boot Menu. See?

And if you want to figure out what’s bothering your PC and you want to attempt to fix it, which of the 3 choices you see above would you choose? Yes, EB?  Right you are! You click on “Troubleshoot” – you’re a wizard EB!

After you click on the Troubleshoot option (above) you’ll see the Advanced Options menu (are you tired yet, EB?)

In order to  get to the Advanced Startup Settings which option (above) would you click, EB? Yes! You’re right. You click the “Startup Settings” option. You’re 2 for 2, today EB!

And after you click “Startup Settings” what to your bloodshot eyes will appear?  The Startup Settings menu – see below:

Now looking up at the Startup Settings screenshot above, you can see you have 7 choices. You can choose whatever option best suits  your needs. If you don’t know what a particular option means, you’re probably better off not to click it – or else google it to find out what it means. Most of you will be most interested in the option “Enable Safe Mode”. Safe Mode allows you to boot your computer with a minimal number of drivers and programs – just enough to start Windows so you can access Settings and things like System Reset (Reset this PC in Update & Security/Recovery). From Safe Mode you can also run Command Prompt with administrator privileges so can you do things like check your hard drives for errors and fix them (CHKDSK /F), or run System File Checker (SFC /SCANNOW), or run System Restore (RSTRUI) and restore your computer to an earlier time before your PC started having problems.

We hope you never need the Advanced Boot Menu or Startup Settings – we hope your PC runs merrily along like EB in a rain shower, but despite all the good wishes in the world – sometimes things happen.

Yes EB, I know the song “Beautiful Boy” (John Lennon). And yes I know the line in the song that goes “…Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.”

But we’re talking about PCs here, aren’t we? Go back to dancing in the rain like nobody’s watching – because that is who’s watching you, EB.

NOBODY.