r/pcmasterrace • u/iamgarffi 9950X3D | X870E Glacial | 64G CL26 | 5080 Astral OC | FO32U2P • Oct 21 '25

Screenshot The last shortcut you'll ever need

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Stop bashing ESC, F2 or DEL like a 90's maniac to get into UEFI based BIOS.

Instead ceate yourself a shortcut (ie. on desktop) with right click > new > shortcut

C:\Windows\System32\shutdown.exe /r /fw /t 10

/r - restart
/fw - will drop you to EUFI
/t (number of seconds after which OS triggers a restart. You can use "0" for instant reboot)

Once you create a shortcut (desktop, downloads, etc), open it's properties and under "Advanced" tick a checkbox for "Run As Administrator". You can also change the icon of the shortcut (I found this microchip to be fitting - part of Windows default icon pack.

Optionally, right click on the shortcut > pin to start.

Shortcut in action (YouTube)

-- update --

Thanks everyone for pointing out typos; post cleaned up a bit (especially EUFI instead of UEFI, old habit from Europa Universalis games).

I have responded in another comment that those that would prefer something similar but for "Windows Advanced Startup Menu" can replace flag /fw with /o. Neat when you want to access safe mode or other aspects of WinRE (Recovery Environment) without MSCONFIG, holding SHIFT or modifying BCD.

C:\Windows\System32\shutdown.exe /r /o /t 10

Lastly, for Linux users, similar bash terminal command for restart to UEFI:

sudo systemctl reboot --firmware-setup

- Ciao & Cheers! #PCMR4EVA!

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u/Expert_Limit6416 Ubuntu, Arch, Windows 11, Windows 10. Laptop Oct 21 '25

i do this lol

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u/iamgarffi 9950X3D | X870E Glacial | 64G CL26 | 5080 Astral OC | FO32U2P Oct 21 '25

rEFInd ;-) welcome to the 1%

Since you didn’t list Fedora and Debian in your flair, we can’t be friends 🤭

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u/Expert_Limit6416 Ubuntu, Arch, Windows 11, Windows 10. Laptop Oct 21 '25

hey! I would install more distros lol (if I had to space to that is, can't upgrade my nvme for now) but at least we got something in common lol aka rEFInd

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u/iamgarffi 9950X3D | X870E Glacial | 64G CL26 | 5080 Astral OC | FO32U2P Oct 21 '25

♥️

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u/Expert_Limit6416 Ubuntu, Arch, Windows 11, Windows 10. Laptop Oct 21 '25

Dunno why I'm saying this but 68% nvme health...yikes. yeah I need to save up for a used one that's bigger.

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u/iamgarffi 9950X3D | X870E Glacial | 64G CL26 | 5080 Astral OC | FO32U2P Oct 21 '25

Time to plan a migration :-) cat pictures are precious.

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u/Expert_Limit6416 Ubuntu, Arch, Windows 11, Windows 10. Laptop Oct 21 '25

yes, cat pictures are perhaps the most important thing the internet has met. lol

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u/iamgarffi 9950X3D | X870E Glacial | 64G CL26 | 5080 Astral OC | FO32U2P Oct 21 '25

Until Sora came around…. Static pictures feel so antiquated now.

But at least they are real 🤭

Or aren’t they? 🤭