Disable Startup Repair on Windows 7

Hello,

Thank you for visiting Microsoft Community.

As per the description, you have concerns regarding “Startup Repair” on the system and is asking to “Disabled Startup Repair” on all Windows 7 computers.

I certainly understand your concern.

In order to understand the issue more clearly, I would request you to kindly provide me with the following information.

1. Did you make any specific changes prior to this issue?

2. Are you able to boot the system to the desktop?

3. When you say we were asked to “Disabled Startup Repair”, what do you mean by this? Who asked you to disable “Startup Repair” and when exactly do you get this message? Is it while booting up the machine or while running any specific application on the system?

4. Are you getting any error message? If yes, what is the exact error message along with the error code?

5. What exactly is the issue now? Do you want to run “Startup Repair” or do you want to disable “Startup Repair“ on the system?

6. Since how long you are experiencing this issue?

Please do provide us with the above information for any further assistance.

We will be glad to assist you.

Thank you.

Hi Jayant,

Thanks for your reply.

We are not getting any errors. We were simply asked to remove of the Repair option from the MOE and Windows start-up based on a security finding, which we must comply.

When a Windows 7 computer has it power cable plug off then on / when VM Power Off/On, it will get this:

by pressing F2 it went to:

then press F8 - to go Repair your computer:

This is the Disable the Repair option to be removed from Windows 7 Startup, So it will always Start Windows Normally.

Can this be accomplish by SCCM? is there ref article I can use?

Thank you

Hello,

Thank you for keeping us posted.

I would suggest you to try the following steps and check if that helps to disable “Startup Repair” on the system.

At the Command prompt enter the following:

bcdedit /set {default} recoveryenabled No

This will disable Startup Repair from automatically booting when there is a problem.

However, you'll have to get back into Windows as and Admin to re-enable it. Just change the No to Yes.

I hope this information is helpful.

If issue persists, you can write to us and we will be glad to assist you further.

Thank you.

Hi,

Tried running this cmdlet alone

bcdebit /set {default} recoveryenabled No

it did not work. But if we run both cmdlets

bcdebit /set {default} recoveryenabled No

bcdebit \set {decault} bootstatuspolicy IgnoreAllFailures

then the it skipped the Startup repair from auto booting.

question:

1. Thought that bootstatuspolicy is set to IgnoreAllFailure by default? why need to ran "...bootstatuspolicy ignoreallfailure"?

2. In windows > In Computer > Properties > System Properties > Advanced > Startup and Recovery, there is this option "time to display recovery options when needed".

From understading, by selecting this option and set to 0 - this will stop startup repair screen from showing too. correct?

If we have this option is selected for future MOE deployment , and then also push the above cmdlets via gpo. will there be any issues of doing so? 

or, the above cmdlets has nothing to do with the "time to display recovery options when needed" option?

thanks