The System Startup and Recovery
utility stores system startup, system failure, and debugging
information. It also controls the behavior (what to do) when a system
failure occurs.
To open System Startup and Recovery, launch
Control Panel, select System and Security, select System, Advanced
System Settings, click the Advanced tab in the Systems Settings dialog
box, and then click Settings under Startup and Recovery to display a
property page similar to the one shown in Figure 1.
Figure 1. The Startup and Recovery page.
The Default Operating System field contains
information that is displayed at startup. This information is typically
the name of the operating system such as Windows Server 2012. You can
edit this information using bcdedit from a command prompt. If the
machine is dual-booted, there will be an entry for each operating
system. The Time to Display List of Operating Systems option specifies
the time the system takes to display the name of the operating system
at startup. The default time is 30 seconds. This can be increased or
reduced. The Time to Display Recovery Options When Needed is unchecked
by default but can be selected and an interval in seconds entered.
You can set the action to be taken when
system failure occurs in the System Failure section. There are two
options. The first option is Write an Event to the System Log. This
action is not editable in Windows Server 2012 because this action
occurs by default every time a stop error occurs. The next option,
Automatically Restart, reboots the system in the event of a system
failure.
The Write Debugging Information
section tells the system where to write debugging information when a
system failure occurs. The options available include where the
debugging information can be written to and the level of debugging
information: Small Memory Dump (128KB), Kernel Memory Dump, Complete
Memory Dump, or (None). The Write Debugging Information To option
requires a paging file on the boot volume, which should be large enough
to contain the select debugging option.
