Can you access msconfig via command prompt?

Question

Hi,

Is there a command to issue in command prompt that opens msconfig or is there a command that changes msconfig start up to "selective" or "normal"?

My laptop is win 10 ver 1909.

It's stopped booting into windows after I changed the start up in msconfig from "selective" to "normal".

I'm having to use command prompt from the win 10 recovery usb.

Answer 1

Hi,

If you have not yet resolved this, here are some commands to enter various types of Safe Mode..

There are also commands to exit Safe Mode..

Lately people have been having entering Safe Mode if they use a password of any kind as It is being rejected..

Safe Mode:

bcdedit /set {default} safeboot minimal

Safe Mode with Networking:

bcdedit /set {default} safeboot network

Safe Mode with Command Prompt:

bcdedit /set {default} safeboot minimal

bcdedit /set {default} safebootalternateshell yes

To turn off Safe Boot use... bcdedit /deletevalue {default} safeboot

If that gives an error, use... bcdedit /deletevalue {current} safeboot

If you run into the password problem, enter this command and see if that helps..

net user Administrator /active:yes

Hi,

Thanks for the commands to run.

When I enter them I get this error:-

Answer 2

We're looking for an option for "Startup Settings". Kindly check if there are other pages on the screen.

Answer 3

Hi,

You might try attacking this from a different angle with this command...

bcdedit /store E:\Boot\BCD /deletevalue {default} safeboot

Substitute your desired action after the \BCD instead of directly after the bcdedit as before..

The trick with this is to find out the drive letter of your "Store" which in your case is probably the hidden "EFI" partition.. I do not have a UEFI machine to demonstrate this, but at the command prompt enter DISKPART..

Then enter List Volume... You should see something like my image, but you should also see something like "EFI" or "System Reserved" which would be around 100MB or so..

Close the command prompt and reopen it..

Substitute the appropriate drive letter in place of the E:...

I did this from within Windows, so the command will look different that your X:\Sources..

Answer 4

We're looking for an option for "Startup Settings". Kindly check if there are other pages on the screen.

As per the screen shot they are the only options the lastest win 10 recovery media gives you.

Answer 5

Do you have Windows 10 installation media? You can boot the PC from there and try going to safe mode and check if it will boot to the desktop.