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Building Windows 8: Designing for PCs that boot faster than ever before
- DHowett 14y agoWhy can't they switch to key holds (the likes of which Apple uses)? Hold down Windows+R ('R'ecovery) during boot to access the menu, no frustrated tapping required. It seems like a fair compromise solution between "make a bunch of special incantations before you reboot" and "press buttons in a tiny window during startup." I realize that there are some issues that need to be addressed even with this approach - POST attempting to reset the keyboard repeatedly because a key is "stuck", for example - but it just seems more elegant than anything requiring interaction with an already-booted system. As an example of why booting the OS fully to reboot the OS is bad, malware could hijack shutdown/settings/shell so that the system never enters the boot menu, precluding safe mode.