Windows 8 Tips Part 19 – Bring back Boot Into Safe Mode With F8
F8 Safe Boot seems to have vanished from Windows 8? One of the strange quirks of Windows 8 is that the Boot into Safe mode by pressing F8 at boot time has been disabled. Microsoft justifies this by saying that modern computers boot too fast.
The response window for pressing the F8 key on a Windows 8 SSD-based UEFI system is less than 200 milliseconds. This is surely okay for modern Windows 8 devices, but for the rest of us folks out there with slower machines (or for those who prefer the F8 Safe Boot method because it is familiar to us), we want the F8 Safe Boot key back. (more…)