How to disable Startup Repair in Windows 7 Professional

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We have a number of machines scattered around at our clients. The staff habitually unplug the machines causing them to enter Startup Repair mode. When this happens, we need to go on site to cancel the wizard and reboot the machines.

Is there a way to permanently disable Startup Repair and allow the machine to boot normally?

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I can't stress Bart's Answer enough. Teach your clients.

If you really want to, this is how:
In cmd, type the following:

bcdedit /set {default} recoveryenabled No
bcdedit /set {default} bootstatuspolicy ignoreallfailures

Be sure to run this in an Administrator shell.

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