Tip #9: Restart Windows into BIOS

There are two simple tricks to Boot your Windows device into BIOS/Firmware without the need of smashing F2, F10 or whatever your vendor needs you to. ¹

Boot into advanced startup menu

Option 1 (shift restart to Advanced Boot Menu)²

This will bring you to to the advanced boot options menu

Select Advanced options

Select Troubleshoot

Select UEFI Firmware Settings and then select Restart

Option 2 (shutdown command)

To restart directly into the Bios, simply run shutdown /r /fw /f /t 0

Switches:

/r         Full shutdown and restart the computer.
/fw        Combine with a shutdown option to cause the next boot to go to the
           firmware user interface.
/f         Force running applications to close without forewarning users.
           The /f parameter is implied when a value greater than 0 is
           specified for the /t parameter.
/t xxx     Set the time-out period before shutdown to xxx seconds.
           The valid range is 0-315360000 (10 years), with a default of 30.
           If the timeout period is greater than 0, the /f parameter is
           implied.

Footnotes

1. Assuming you are running in UEFI mode ↩︎

2. to display the onscreen hotkey, i used Keyviz, installed via winget install mulaRahul.Keyviz, lovely tool 😎 ↩︎