Can’t do cold start directly to UEFI/BIOS display on laptop

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Have a Toshiba C55-A5126 which under Windows 8.1 would cold boot into the UEFI/BIOS/Boot Order display by holding down F2 (only not with FN-key) and pressing the start button.
Under Windows 10 I have tried ESC, F1, F2, F10, f12, and DEL and hitting the start button and cannot get to that UEFI display unless I first boot to the login screen then hold down F2 and do a restart.
Is there a way to get to the BIOS/UEFI display from a cold start which could occur and need to be used to recover?

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Fast startup is enabled in windows 10 by default. This could cause your cold boot problems. right click start > control panel > power options > choose what the power buttons do > change settings that are currently unavailable and uncheck turn on fast startup. Save changes.

I just discovered my insider preview build 14295.1000 running in a virtual machine does not have the fast startup setting. Hope this didn’t cause any confusion.

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You can go to start>settings>update and security>recovery>advanced options>restart. This will give you the option to enter your bios.

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