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Use the legacy (text) boot menu

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Runs `bcdedit /set bootmenupolicy legacy`. Switches from the modern graphical boot menu to the classic text-mode menu, which skips the graphical boot-UI initialization (a small boot-time saving) and restores the F8 'Advanced Boot Options' key on startup. Purely cosmetic to the running OS. Reboot required. Revert restores the Standard policy.

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