Once you have this information, you can troubleshoot numerous problems. Here’s how to enable the boot log using Windows built-in msconfig.exe tool. Step 1: Fire up msconfig.

Windows 8 Boot Screens Get a Classy New Look. By Elizabeth Fish. Sep 22, 2011 2:41 pm PDT. ... With Windows 8, Microsoft does away with the scrolling BIOS messages of the past.

Firstly, if Windows 8 detects a serious error, it will interrupt the boot process automatically and display advanced boot options. This is not unlike what Windows does already.

Many Linux lovers are worried that Microsoft's new Secure Boot technology will make it more difficult to get the open source operating system onto machines that originally ship with Windows 8. But ...

A new security measure introduced with Windows 8 requiring so-called secure boot keys could make it more difficult for consumers to load other operating systems including Linux on OEM Microsoft ...

In other words, a Windows 8 PC could be set up so that it only boot from files that have been signed by Microsoft or an OEM vendor; and obviously, an open-source, build-it-yourself Linux boot ...

Windows 8 boots ‘too quickly’ to be interrupted, Microsoft adding a new ‘boot options’ menu. Did you know that an SSD-equipped Windows 8 PC can boot up in under seven seconds?