Accessing the Recovery Environment
Windows 8 offers a revamped Recovery Environment (RE) that gives you a simple, easily navigated set of screens that offer a number of troubleshooting tools and utilities. In previous versions of Windows, you could access the advanced startup options by pressing F8 during startup (after your PC completed its Power-On Self Test). That no longer works, but Windows 8 offers many other ways to get to the RE and its advanced startup options:
• Use the PC Settings app from within Windows 8.
• Use the SHUTDOWN command from within Windows 8.
• Use the boot options screen if you dual-boot Windows 8 and another operating system.
• Boot to a recovery drive.
• Boot to a system repair disc.
• Boot to your Windows 8 installation ...
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