Windows 10: Boot Menu Timeout Wont Change from 30 seconds

I have been trying to get the delay in which Windows sits at startup with the f2/del boot choice, f8 for this, f11 for that menu. No matter what I do it never changes from 30 seconds. I have changed it in the System Configuration msconfig tool to various numbers. I have used BCDedit /timeout function. Both of them record the change on the gui as well as bcdedit /enum and it reports that the change has been made but upon boot it still is 30 seconds. I have changed the Advanced System Settings "Startup and Recovery" menu with the time to display boot choice and time to display recovery if necess

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No startup boot menu

Hello Kimoefat,

Thank you for posting your concern in Microsoft Community and welcome to the Windows 10 Family.

As an initial recommendation, I would suggest you to access the System configuration utility and check if the Operating System installation path for Ubuntu exists. To do so, follow the below steps.

• Type msconfig in the search bar and select System Configuration from the search results.
• Select the boot tab in the System configuration console to check if the installation path for Ubuntu exists.

If it exists, next logical step is to check if the boot menu time out has been set to 0, which results in Boot menu not showing up.

The boot menu time-out determines how long the boot menu is displayed before the default boot entry is loaded. It is calibrated in seconds. To change the boot menu time-out, use the Bootcfg
/timeout switch. Valid values are from 0 through 999. You cannot use Bootcfg to set an indefinite time-out.

You can run the following Run command line to set the boot menu time-out accordingly. To do so, follow the below steps.

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  Press Windows key + X, select
  Command prompt (Admin) to bring up elevated Command prompt
  
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  Type in the following command: bootcfg /timeout 10
  
  timeout 10 will set the time frame to 10 seconds
  

However, if the Boot path for Ubuntu does not exist in the boot menu of System Configuration utility, I would suggest you to check if the Ubuntu is overridden by the Windows installation or if the Ubuntu installation files are corrupted.

Hope the above information is helpful. If you need further information, feel free to write to us and we would be happy to help you.

Thank You.

 

Boot up selections, how to delete menu

As far as I know, you wont be able to achieve what you want then. Since you have 4 partitions youll end up just having the boot loader screen to choose what OS you want to use. Most I can tell you is change the timeout from 30 seconds to like 5 seconds or even 2 if its allowed. That way you wont have to wait.

 

How to change the Screen Timeout settings

Hello,

Welcome to the Microsoft Community.

I would suggest you to follow the below steps and check if it helps.

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  Right click on the desktop and click on Personalization.
  
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  Click on Lock screen
  
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  On the bottom of the screen click on Screen Timeout.
  
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  Under screen select the Time period accordingly.
  

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