Windows 7, which is so popular among many users, as it turns out, has recently become very moody and is able to "fly out" at the most inopportune moment. Most experts associate the appearance of such a situation with the spontaneous installation of incomplete updates. Therefore, it is necessary to revive the system, using additional options for loading Windows 7 for this. But how to get to these parameters and what actions can be performed to bring the system to life?
What are additional boot options for Windows 7?
Let's start with the main one and consider what this instrumental set is. In order to avoid unnecessary fantasies and misconceptions, we can immediately note that the additional boot options for Windows 7, however, like any other system, are nothing more than a special boot menu that can be called up even before the system starts to boot, but after transferring control from the BIOS Windows bootloader.
How to get to the start menu?
Actually, calling this menu is quite simple, since the way it is launched is familiar to everyone.
In the interval when the start screen disappears with a brief description of the computer’s parameters and displays the BIOS entry option, and the Windows 7 welcome screen has not yet appeared, press the F8 key. But you need to use not just one press contrary to the advice, but press the key several times, since it is almost impossible to accurately guess the moment of transfer of control.
Boot Menu Items
So, we assume that the menu of additional boot options is running. Many novice users get a little lost at its points. Speaking about ordinary users, they use disabling digital signature verification, activating debug mode, restoring directory services, loading logging, etc. there is absolutely no sense, since these modes are designed exclusively for programmers and system administrators.
Most often, you need to use one of the options for a safe start, loading the last successful configuration, setting a low screen resolution when problems arise with a graphics adapter or monitor, as well as a troubleshooting item, which may not be on the menu.
Among the options for using safe mode, the very first item is usually chosen, since support for the command line and network drivers is necessary only if fixing all kinds of failures requires entering special commands or accessing the Internet.
The saved successful configuration is almost the most ordinary backup, which allows you to quickly restore the system if it does not boot. With this, in principle, no user should have difficulties.
Restoring Windows 7 boot from the start menu
The menu displayed when using the computer troubleshooting item looks much more interesting.
If you look at it very carefully, it is easy to figure out that the exact same menu can be seen when you boot the computer from a removable device with the installation distribution, when a link to restore the system is selected.
Here you can also use several options. In the simplest case, if only the damage to system components is not so significant, you can try to fix problems with starting Windows, start the standard rollback process, at which the required control point is selected, and also use recovery from the image, naturally, if it was created in advance.
In addition, for people who know it, it is of particular interest to use the same command line, through the toolkit of which you can perform many actions, including checking important system files ( sfc / scannow), checking the hard disk or system partition for errors and bad sectors (chkdsk / x / f / r), activate Windows scan and recovery using DISM tools, etc.
What if the start menu does not work?
But it also happens that additional boot options for Windows 7 do not start. In other words, for some reason, the user cannot access the recovery environment. To correct the situation, you can apply several methods.
So, for example, in the simplest case, you can run the command presented above (either in a working system, or when starting from removable bootable media). As a rule, this is the method that most often works, after which the use of the F8 key and the one that is called up by pressing the menu again becomes possible.
If you just need access to safe mode without using the start menu, and the system somehow boots up, you can set the appropriate parameters in the system configuration (msconfig). But in this case, a safe start will be made constantly, and to return to normal mode, these settings will need to be restored to their original state.
Finally, you can restore access to the recovery environment through the command line, activating it by entering the combination reagentc.exe / enable (in any startup option).