I am running Windows 7 x64 on my machine and everything is perfect. I actually never turn off my PC completely but rather I always put it into hibernation mode for fast resume once I get back.
Hibernation works like a charm, but once every 50 or 100 hibernations something goes wrong and the machine reboots. After that I usually have to reset the system clock in BIOS and Windows is starting up from the hibernation image that somehow got saved to disk (that's really cool).
But: This hibernation image recovery is awfully slow, once the machine is up again it takes almost 2 minutes for it to not feel sluggish any more (I suspect this is due to pagefaults on all memory access).
I'm looking for a way to tell Windows to NOT recover from the crash but rather just boot fresh, discarding the hibernation since it's faster to just reboot rather than wait for 3+ minutes for the machine to get it's act together.
I do see the normal BIOS startup and also the Windows boot afterwards, but hitting F8 like crazy doesn't do anything. In Windows 2000 and Windows XP a menu would come up asking me how I do want to boot, but I can't find it on Windows 7.
Best Answer
It is the same key for Windows 7, presumably Windows is just too quick deciding to recover from hibernation.
I suppose you could just power off while the computer is starting, and you will then be offered the menu automatically, but that's a bit of a nasty solution.