You should now see a message stating “The operation completed successfully”. You should now see a “Command Prompt” dialog box.Ĥ – Copy and paste the following line after the command prompt, then press the Enter key:īcdedit /set bootmenupolicy legacy Note: Click Yes if a “User Account Control” window appears. The words “Command Prompt” should pop up in the search results pane.ģ – Right-click on Command Prompt and select Run as administrator from the drop-down menu. Re-enabling the F8 key at Windows Startup will slow down the boot process just a tad, but I happen to believe the trade-off is worth it.įollow the steps below to force Windows 10 to recognize the F8 key for booting into Safe Mode:ġ – Press the Windows+ S key combination to open a Search box.Ģ – Type CMD into the Search box. If you miss being able to press F8 to boot into Safe Mode on your Windows 10 machine, you can easily re-enable it with a simple command line entry. Personally, I have never been very fond of that change. Starting with Windows 8, Microsoft disabled that option in order to help speed up the boot process.
In Windows 7 (and earlier versions) we could easily boot our computers into Safe Mode by repeatedly pressing the F8 key when Windows first started loading.
