Creating a Tile for the Options Menu
Windows 8 offers an Advanced Boot Options menu accessible upon reboot. This menu provides options to refresh or reset your PC or perform more advanced tasks, such as restoring Windows from a restore point or system image, running an automatic repair of Windows, booting into a command prompt, and changing the start-up behavior of Windows. You can boot into this menu from the General section in the PC settings screen. But a quicker option is to create a Start screen tile to reboot Windows directly into the menu. This task explains how to create a Start screen tile to launch the Advanced Boot Options menu.
1 Access the desktop: Launch the desktop from its Start screen tile.
tip You can run your new Restart to Options menu command either from its Start screen tile or from its desktop shortcut.
2 Create shortcut: Right-click the desktop. Select New from the pop-up menu and then select Shortcut. Type shutdown /r /o /t 0 in the Type the location of the item field. Click Next.
3 Name it: Name the shortcut Launch Options menu. Click Finish.
4 Pin shortcut to Start screen: Right-click the shortcut. Select Pin to Start from the pop-up menu.
5 Restart Windows from Start screen: Return to the Start screen by pressing the Windows key or clicking the thumbnail in the lower-left hot corner. Move to the end of the Start screen. Click the Launch Options Menu tile.
6 Launch Advanced Boot Options menu: Windows 8 launches the Advanced Boot Options menu. From here, you can select the Troubleshoot option and then either refresh or reset your PC, or click Advanced options to view more choices to troubleshoot, restore, or recover your PC.
tip You can also access the Options menu by holding down the Shift key while you click Restart from the Power icon in the Settings pane.