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

   Information

UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) is a standard firmware interface for PCs, designed to replace BIOS (basic input/output system). This standard was created by over 140 technology companies as part of the UEFI consortium, including Microsoft. It's designed to improve software interoperability and address limitations of BIOS.

Booting to your BIOS or UEFI firmware settings can sometimes not always be easy to do at boot, and takes time going through Settings.

This tutorial will show you how to add Boot to UEFI Firmware Settings to the desktop context menu making it easy to directly boot to the UEFI settings of your Windows 10 PC.

You must be signed in as an administrator to add or remove the context menu.

   Note

When users click/tap on the Boot to UEFI Firmware Settings context menu item, they will be prompted by UAC to approve with administrator rights or credentials, and then see a You're about to be signed out message below before the PC automatically restarts in one minute to boot directly to the PC's UEFI firmware settings.

EXAMPLE: "Boot to UEFI Firmware Settings" context menu




Here's How:

1. Do step 2 (add) or step 3 (remove) below for what you would like to do.

 2. To Add "Boot to UEFI Firmware Settings" to Desktop Context Menu

A) Click/tap on the Download button below you want to use to download the file, and go to step 4 below.

(Top of context menu)
Add_Boot_to_UEFI_Firmware_Settings_to_TOP_desktop_context_menu.reg

Download

OR

(Middle of context menu)
Add_Boot_to_UEFI_Firmware_Settings_to_MIDDLE_desktop_context_menu.reg

Download

OR

(Bottom of context menu)
Add_Boot_to_UEFI_Firmware_Settings_to_BOTTOM_desktop_context_menu.reg

Download

 3. To Remove "Boot to UEFI Firmware Settings" from Desktop Context Menu

NOTE: This is the default setting.

A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the file below, and go to step 4 below.

Remove_Boot_to_UEFI_Firmware_Settings_from_desktop_context_menu.reg

Download

4. Save the .reg file to your desktop.

5. Double click/tap on the downloaded .reg file to merge it.

6. When prompted, click on Run, Yes (UAC), Yes, and OK to approve the merge.

7. You can now delete the downloaded .reg file if you like.


That's it,
Shawn

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