In Windows8 Microsoft has modified their booting process to make it faster. But it remove the function to access Advanced Boot Option using function key F8. So Windows 8 users especially system administrator will have confusion to access Advanced Boot Option if anything goes wrong with operating system.
By default you will get this option if Windows detects any issues while booting. Also you can access Advanced Boot Option from desktop which I described in my earlier post.
If you still need to enable function key F8 for this, you can do it by following the step below
- Start your Windows 8 computer
- Open command prompt as an Administrator (On the Start Screen, type cmd and right-click on cmd.exe, then select Run as administrator and Confirm the UAC prompt)
- Then type the following command: bcdedit /set {default} bootmenupolicy legacy and hit enter
- If it executed properly you will get the message “The operation completed successfully"
- Restart the computer
From there you can access the Advanced Boot Option using function key F8 at the start up. Incase if you want to disable this feature, please follow the above step and instead of running the above command use bcdedit /set {default} bootmenupolicy standard