{"id":60,"date":"2013-12-22T17:39:10","date_gmt":"2013-12-22T17:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chromedian.com\/?p=60"},"modified":"2013-12-24T10:13:53","modified_gmt":"2013-12-24T10:13:53","slug":"bring-back-the-f8-startup-options-in-windows-8-and-8-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chromedian.com\/?p=60","title":{"rendered":"Bring Back the F8 Startup Options In Windows 8 and 8.1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Got Windows 8?  Miss the old F8 trick to boot into safe mode from start-up?  Need to boot into Safe Mode with Command Prompt?  Never Fear!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lifehacker.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lifehacker<\/a> recently posted a neat little workaround for getting the boot-up options to appear again in Windows 8 and 8.1. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/lifehacker.com\/bring-back-the-old-f8-safe-mode-shortcut-in-windows-8-577175460\" target=\"_blank\">Go Go Boot Loader!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Basically, you need to get to a command prompt and type:<br \/>\n<em><strong>bcdedit \/set {default} bootmenupolicy legacy<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong><\/strong><\/em><br \/>\nTo get it to go back to normal, just type:<br \/>\n<em><strong>bcdedit \/set {default} bootmenupolicy standard<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>If you cannot get into windows:<\/strong><br \/>\nInsert your Windows 8 CD and boot to it.<br \/>\nChoose next at the language screen<\/p>\n<p>Select Repair My Computer\/<br \/>\nAdvanced\/Troubleshoot\/Command Prompt<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Got Windows 8? Miss the old F8 trick to boot into safe mode from start-up? Need to boot into Safe Mode with Command Prompt? Never Fear!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":64,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[12,11,10,9],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chromedian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chromedian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chromedian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chromedian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chromedian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.chromedian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90,"href":"http:\/\/www.chromedian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions\/90"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chromedian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/64"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chromedian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chromedian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chromedian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}