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Password protect Windows 8/8.1/10 Troubleshooting

 
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Im putting this in "Meaningless Drivel" because there didn't seem to be a windows section. If there is, and I missed it, can you please inform me and move the post.

On Windows 8/8.1/10 there are these troubleshooting settings which you can get too by the lockscreen but holding down shift and selecting restart (I'm also pretty sure there are other ways to get to it but this is the easiest as no pass is required). From here you can do things like boot UEFI, boot from another disk or even wipe the computer clean. I password locked UEFI, pretty sure my friends wouldn't go to the extent that they would install a whole new operating system, and was pretty sure the wipe computer option would be locked.

But recently, my friends were joking around with my laptop and went into that option, pretty sure (like me) that it would be locked since they accessed it from the lock screen without a password.
Turns out we were all wrong.

Luckily I was able to stop it while it was still "Preparing" and nothing seemed to be affected. But I have lots of code (that I should backup) that I don't want to lose. This seems like a very huge and simple security risk so there must be some option somewhere to password lock it but after searching about it I couldn't find anything. So thats why I'm here.

Thanks in advance.
 
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"General Computing" is the least worst choice for Windows questions here, so I moved your post.

Anyway... I've got Windows 10 here. I made the lock screen appear (Ctrl-Alt-Del and select the "Lock" option); but holding the shift key does nothing. No menu to select "restart" there. So there must be something different between our two systems. Dunno what that might be.

And yeah, you should back up that stuff. There are scenarios other then friends joking around -- you could drop the laptop and lose the data. I've got a 1 TB hard drive which I use to back up my "important" stuff but I'm still worried about what might happen to it. One house fire which burns up the computer and the backup drive and there was no point in doing the backup. I've even taken the hard drive on vacations ("offsite backup"), but I should really change my process and back up to the cloud.

 
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To get to it from the lock screen. Select the power button in the bottom right corner (where you would usually go to shut down, restart, etc.) then select restart while holding down shift. It should say "Please Wait..." if you did it correctly and switch to troubleshooting. From there you can have a look around.

Sorry for not being specific enough.
 
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Aha... I've got a desktop machine so I don't have a power button on my keyboard. That's the difference right there. So it looks like I can't reproduce your example on my machine. Sorry about that.
 
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(This isnt my computer as I don't have access to it at the moment. This is just a picture from the internet)

See down the bottom right of the screen? I'm pretty sure this is on all computers even desktops.
 
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