Windows 8 boots ‘too quickly’ to be interrupted, Microsoft adding a new ‘boot options’ menu
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Author: Matthew Baker
Author: Matthew Baker
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Did you know that an SSD-equipped Windows 8 PC can boot up in under seven seconds? Watch the video below if you don’t believe it, Microsoft has really optimized the hell out of the startup operations of its next OS — although that has come at a somewhat amusing cost: you no longer get enough time to interrupt the boot process. The current ability to press F8 while your PC is powering up and the ever-familiar BIOS menu prompt of “Press F2 to enter setup” will both be missing from Windows 8 computers, simply because the hardware and software have advanced to such an extent as to leave users with too little time to access them.
Chris Clark, program manager at Microsoft’s User Experience team, notes in a Building Windows 8 blog post that…
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