Windows 10: Enable or Disable F8 Advanced Boot Options in Windows 10

Interesting. Luckily, both "Advanced Boot Options" (old) and "Startup Settings" (new) provide the same options.

If you like, the latest build for version 1607 is build 14393.1532 below via Microsoft Update Catalog.

*Arrow Cumulative Update KB4025334 Windows 10 v1607 Build 14393.1532 - Windows 10 Forums

 

Ideally I prefer to wait until MS pushes updates to me via Windows Update, rather than force them, just in case there's some hardware incompatibility or other that they might know about?
With that in mind, I clicked the Check For Updates button and it installed some, though not that one.
It's now upgraded me to Version 1607 (OS Build 14393.1593)
Behaviours still as described above though. No biggie though really - I was just curious as to whether it was normal, and it doesn't affect my day to day usage. I'll re-check after any more updates though.

 

Quick update: the 'Creators Update' (Windows v1703) was pushed to my machine last week, and ever since, I no longer get the Advanced Boot Options menu on restarts. (I haven't yet tried enabling it per the instructions in the tutorial - will leave it as-is for the time being, to minimise startup time).

 

Hello Piminy, *Smile

Are you able to boot to Advanced Startup using any of the options in the tutorial below?

*Arrow Boot to Advanced Startup Options in Windows 10 Installation Upgrade Tutorials

 

Yes, happy to! I tried:
Option 2: Boot to Advanced Startup Options from Power Menu, and from Ctrl+Alt+Del (Shift+Restart in both cases)
Option 7: Boot to Advanced Startup Options from Command, shutdown /r /o /f /t 00

Happy to report that in all three cases, I was presented with the blue 'Choose an option' screen. After choosing 'Troubleshoot' there are a few more selections to make, then the PC restarts, and I was presented with the blue 'Startup Settings' screen. No more hard-to-read DOS-style menu, and no more menu at all unless I choose so. I'd guess that all of the other options in that tutorial would work just as well.

This is now optimal behaviour - thank you!

I'm only guessing that it was the Creators Update that changed the behaviour on my PC - it certainly happened at the same time I applied that update, but can't say for sure if it would have the same effect on other PCs.

 

Great news. *Party

It's not uncommon to have some things reset back to default when updating to a new build of Windows 10.