nooby wrote:Have any of you tested this from ZDnet?
The simplest way of accessing Windows 8's boot options menu
is to hold down the shift key while clicking 'Restart'.
Not exactly, But I've used a related shifted shutdown option.
But do I have a restart button on my Swedish keyboard?
Or do they refer to something that comes up with the new keystrokes?
They're not talking about a keyboard button nooby, But if you click on the shutdoun Icon {Even the one in the bottom righthand corner of the login screen} it will display a pop-up of three choices. One of them says restart. The idea is that after you get it to offer that restart choice, you hold the shift key on the keyboard, while you use the mouse to click on the restart choice. And if the zdnet article is to be believed, that would generate a menu of restart options, including booting a usb device.
Of course, if you haven't managed to either switch bios to legacy mode, or the separate choice of disabling secure boot (see the links in my previous posts) Then the usb device would only boot if secure boot allows it. Which is why the first time you boot a fatdog duel architecture usb key like the one Ted dog told us how to make, you would have to jump through a few hoops to tell secure boot to trust fatdog's "keys". {the next time secure boot would just recognize them and let it boot.} But if it was
MY win8 machine, the first thing Id have done would be to disable secure boot. And maybe also to switch bios to legacy mode, either of which should get secure boot out of the way.
Ted Dog wrote:the shift button is something I have not read before but that article is almost two years old... Shift and power on button should be the same thing.
Similar in that you first click on the power
«icon not the keyboard button» you get a three choice menu including shutdown and restart. Holding the shift key on the keyboard while clicking on the shutdown choice with the mouse caused windows 8 to actually shut down instead of just hibernate. And I guess doing the same with the restart choice gets you a special restart menu...
Better still find the set-up choice to disable "fastboot" so windows will always properly shutdown and also let you access things on power-on like the boot menu, and or the "bios" settings menu where you can define the boot order to give precedence to the connected usb device.
Though it's not certain that it will remember that precedence after having booted even onetime without the removable usb device still in the same usb port... Though on the one win8 machine (a cheap gateway laptop) that I got to test the UEFI secure boot-ability of an duel architecture fatdog flash drive did actualy remember it on a subsequent boot...
