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If you are using UEFI then I think windows does have the ability to change boot options. This happened to me as well, windows changed my boot order after an update.
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Andre Sanches
"UNIX is friendly, it's just picky about its friends"
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I saw UEFI on the first screen when I hit DEL to go into the BIOS. I don't know whether it's being used or an option I could choose to use.
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9082365 wrote: I'm not aware of anything in Windows that can reach back into the machine boot.
Me neither, but the last week I ended up removing the CMOS battery and plugging it again into my father in-law computer as even nobody-knows-what-happened-here the computer was unable to continue after the POST display at the beginning and he promised me that he had not touched anything apart of Windows... 
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Some days after the install, when I clicked the icon on the desktop, it removed all knowledge of having installed Chrome. I have been a bit nervous since that, and done a lot of back-ups. But I haven't actually experienced anything like it since then.
"God doesn't play dice" - Albert Einstein
"God not only plays dice, He sometimes throws the dices where they cannot be seen" - Niels Bohr
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Well, ever since upgrading from 7 to 10, I'm having trouble with standby. The machine would go into standby, but when I later fiddle with the mouse or keyboard to wake it up, it tries, but then shuts down completely.
I haven't invested enough energy into figuring this out to say for certain whether this has anything to do with Windows 10 or not, because I never used standby all that often anyway.
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I've noticed a big change in the effort needed to get out of standby. I really haven't had a chance to tinker with the power settings too much, but am considering disabling standby.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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I agree. It is certainly harder than it was under Win8.1. I think I will consider disabling standby if it causes any more problems.
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We have a surface book pro 4, and it will go into fake standby mode (black screen, except for JING Icon), and we cannot seem to do anything. It is partially alive.
Luckily, hitting Ctrl-Alt-Del got me back to the login screen, everything was normal after that.
We have noticed HUGE issues once updates are downloaded and ready to install. It is like it starts disabling crap until you do the reboot that installs stuff.
Comparing the two, I prefer windows 7 still, but I can see eventually making the switch.
HTH
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I gave up using standby, it cant handle my intel hardware.
Most times that it does a windows update my start menu and notification panel die and require rebooting in safe mode to make them work again. ms know about this bug but have not yet been able to fix it, so that doesn't pump up my confidence in win10.
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Sounds like you have a hardware issue perhaps aggravated by W10.
In my experience with W10 on my laptop, it loves to install updates at the most inopportune times.
I'm wondering if it installed an update while you were gone and the system was idle. It rebooted (unlikely but possible) and then ran into a transitory hardware glitch - perhaps the m-board battery like has been mentioned. Just spit-balling.
Is there an update for BIOS?
(BTW, I'm unfamiliar with the term "pukka".)
Cheers,
Mike Fidler
"I intend to live forever - so far, so good." Steven Wright
"I almost had a psychic girlfriend but she left me before we met." Also Steven Wright
"I'm addicted to placebos. I could quit, but it wouldn't matter." Steven Wright yet again.
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Sorry about that. Pukka is adopted from the times of the English Raj in India. It is an Anglo-Indian word which means, among other things, thoroughly good, complete, solidly built, genuine, high class.
It's an interesting, plausible suggestion as to what might have caused the re-boot. I will see if it happens again.
I've never actually done a BIOS update although I have been tempted. I will check if one is available and, if so, see if I can pluck up the courage to do one.
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Don't try one if your CMOS battery may be flaking out.
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The Orion 5 takes on a Frenchman’s nose in a scramble to the point of no return (5,7)
modified 18-Jan-16 5:55am.
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I think I've got it - but I can only justify one letter! 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Cancel that - yes, I've got it!
If no-one else posts, I'll put up my solution in an hour or so - give them some time to play.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Any ideas on the FOSW, why not do them both tomorrow. 
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Yes - I just got it! But you can count on me not to bring everyone down by answering both...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OK, let's put the man out of his misery!
The Orion THEORION
5 V
takes on a Frenchman’s nose NEZ
in a scramble (anag.)
to the point of no return
EVENT HORIZON
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Correct... 
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We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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Perhaps this one will be solvable 
5-4_32-1_ (9)
Clue 1: The Lounge - CodeProject[^]
Clue 2: Eight out of ten cats do it better IMHO.
modified 18-Jan-16 5:56am.
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Display Name Taken wrote: Perhaps this one will be solvable
Will this one be solvable?
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Nope: SOLVABLE is only eight letters!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Oh I see, it seemed he straight forwardly "SolvableD" this one 
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Brittle1618 wrote: SolvableD
2W 1B?
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