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Tip #9: Restart Windows into BIOS

There are two simple tricks to Boot your Windows device into BIOS/Firmware without the need of smashing F2, F10 or whatever your vendor needs you to. 1

Boot into advanced startup menu

Option 1 (shift restart to Advanced Boot Menu)2

shift restart

This will bring you to to the advanced boot options menu

Select Advanced options advanced restart menu advanced options

Select Troubleshoot advanced restart menu troubleshoot

Select UEFI Firmware Settings and then select Restart advanced restart menu uefi

Option 2 (shutdown command)

To restart directly into the Bios, simply run shutdown /r /fw /f /t 0

Switches:

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/r         Full shutdown and restart the computer.
/fw        Combine with a shutdown option to cause the next boot to go to the
           firmware user interface.
/f         Force running applications to close without forewarning users.
           The /f parameter is implied when a value greater than 0 is
           specified for the /t parameter.
/t xxx     Set the time-out period before shutdown to xxx seconds.
           The valid range is 0-315360000 (10 years), with a default of 30.
           If the timeout period is greater than 0, the /f parameter is
           implied.

Footnotes

  1. Assuming you are running in UEFI mode ↩︎

  2. to display the onscreen hotkey, i used Keyviz, installed via winget install mulaRahul.Keyviz, lovely tool 😎 ↩︎

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