On supported hardware, Windows 8 can boot really, really quickly. That’s because Microsoft has changed the way the boot process works and designed it to take advantage of systems that use UEFI instead ...

Windows 7's Advanced Boot Options dialog lets you select one of many options when booting your computer. These options are primarily designed for troubleshooting or repair purposes, so you can get ...

On Microsoft's MSDN blog, the company has revealed in great detail some of the changes we can expect to see to boot options inherent in Windows 8. Most notably, gone are the days of tapping F8 ...

The Advanced startup options menu allows you to specify various options for how you would like Windows 8 to start or to provide access to repair and diagnostic tools in the event that Windows is ...

The Windows operating system includes various startup options for troubleshooting issues with the Windows boot process. One troubleshooting option, Debugging Mode, is available for system ...

This article discusses Hardware Interrupts in Windows and how to show the boot menu in Windows. A video at the MSDN blog shows Windows booting real fast – under seven seconds. The computer used was an ...

Getting to the BIOS configuration settings on modern PCs running Microsoft Windows 10 is not an intuitive process. Here is how you do it. For most of us, and this is a fortunate happenstance to say ...

One thing you might have noticed about Windows 8 is its new boot loader (i.e. the screen that appears shortly after you start your PC). It has a graphical interface, which is nice, but it’s not great ...

Windows 8 introduced a new boot loader that decreased the time that it takes Windows 8 to start. Unfortunately, in order to do this Microsoft needed to remove the ability to access the Advanced Boot ...

In its latest blog on Building Windows 8, Microsoft explains how it tried to create a more seamless boot experience for its upcoming new operating system. Lance Whitney is a freelance technology ...