Create Shortcut to Boot to UEFI Firmware Settings in Windows 10  

Joanne said:

This does not work on my system (which is fully shown in my system specs).

Your screenshot tells the full story (I've highlighted the error message):


This method works without issues on all UEFI based machines, legacy BIOS machines might get the error like you did.

Brink said:

Working on a tutorial for that now using a PowerShell wrapper for elevation. I'll post back when it's ready. :)

Cool!

Brink said:

Working on a tutorial for that now using a PowerShell wrapper for elevation. I'll post back when it's ready. :)

Excellent. Looking forward to it :)

@sygnus21

Before I finalize it, how does this look for the context menu name, icon, and location?

Perfect. That's just how I like it. Thanks! :)

sygnus21 said:

Perfect. That's just how I like it. Thanks! :)

@sygnus21

All done. :)

How to Add Boot to UEFI Firmware Settings Context Menu in Windows 10

lx07 said:

You should change the title to exclude the word "BIOS" as it does not work.

I guess not many people use legacy any more but if it isn't clarified it would confuse for sure as it doesn't work for legacy BIOS PCs.

Tutorial and its title edited.

Brink said:

@sygnus21

All done. :)

How to Add Boot to UEFI Firmware Settings Context Menu in Windows 10

Thanks Shawn, works like a champ :)

@Kari, something I should have brought up is there is a delay of about 30 seconds (stop watched it the second time around) from when you click the shortcut to when the system restarts. At least on my system. In fact, the delay is so long I thought the shortcut didn’t work, and was about hit it again when the PC suddenly restarted. At any rate I timed it the second time around and that’s where I got the 30 seconds from.

Is this normal? If so, just want people aware of such a delay.

Thanks.

sygnus21 said:

Is this normal?

Yes, that is normal. The default timeout delay in shutdown command is 30 seconds. It will be used if no custom delay is set with /t X switch where X is preferred delay in seconds.

Some examples:

Shutdown in 30 seconds, using either default delay or setting delay manually to 30 seconds:

shutdown /s

shutdown /s /t 30

Restart in 30 seconds:

shutdown /r

shutdown /r /t 30

Restart to advanced startup options (/o switch) in 5 minutes (300 seconds) forcing all programs to close before restart (/f switch):

shutdown /r /o /f /t 300

Shutting down PC in one hour (3,600 seconds), forcing to close all programs, booting to UEFI settings next time PC is turned on:

shutdown /s /f /fw /t 3600

Restarting to UEFI settings immediately (no delay):

shutdown /r /fw /t 0

The last two sample commands above need to be run elevated because of the /fw switch. All other sample commands can be run without elevation.

Kari

Thanks. At least I now know this is normal behavior. And got it on the commands.

Thanks.

BTW I forgot to comment on this earlier. Nice one, I'll have to borrow it sometime....

Kari said: