HOWTO: disable windows recovery

If your supplier modified your windows recovery console to automatically wipe your disk clean, you'll probably want to disable windows recovery from advanced boot options menu [f8] and other custom keyboard hooks such as [f11].

These might give you some clues how to do it:

bcdedit /deletevalue recoverysequence
bcdedit /set recoveryenabled no
bcdedit /deletevalue {bootmgr} customactions
bcdedit /deletevalue {bootmgr} custom:5400000f

(hint: check bcdedit /enum all for other references)

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