Stop F8 and ignore all Failures

[sloughman]

Hello all

 

We recently had a network upgrade, server etc and as part of this, new Windows 7 image was deployed to all machines. Previously on Win 7 I used to run the following two lines of script as a batch file, it would prevent access to the F8 boot options screen and any failure messages from appearing, therefore PCs always boot to windows log in screen even if PC crashed out rather than graceful shut down, as students love to do. However since new Win 7 image this does not work anymore, I have tried running the batch file, or copying into cmd prompt with admin rights all to no avail. Anybody got any ideas why this might be happening ? Thanks in advance.

 

bcdedit /set {bootmgr} displaybootmenu no

bcdedit /set {default} bootstatuspolicy ignoreallfailures

[Liam]

I have a script for this.. pm me and I'll send itnyou

[dapaulio]

Liam sent you a pm as I'm also interested

[BOOT]

Here's what I use:

bcdedit /set {bootmgr} displaybootmenu false
bcdedit /set {default} recoveryenabled false
bcdedit /deletevalue {default} recoverysequence
bcdedit /set {default} advancedoptions false
bcdedit /set {default} bootstatuspolicy IgnoreAllFailures

[toffee_paul]

would I be right in thinking that preventing access to the boot screen is common in schools?

 

Thinking of doing this with our student laptops...we have BIOS passwords set here but obviously this is another layer of security I need to add in!

 

Does anyone enforce this with say, admin desktops or just limit it to pupil machines?

[BOOT]

I've done it to all clients. Practically eliminated the 'I got impatient and turned my PC off and now it doesn't start anymore' type issues.

[toffee_paul]

Haha love it. Funny how those types of people seem to have infiltrated every place I've ever worked!

 

How did you deploy this btw? I was going to look at PDQ Deploy but renewing that this year may not be an option