Starting Windows or in Recovery Mode by default.

I have about 100 pro Windows 7 machines, in a data center.  They are all configured to restart and launch their applications 'accommodation', should they suffer a power failure (or just generally need a restart).

They are all accessible remotely via Team Viewer or VNC.

Normally when a failure occurs, the machine will restart automatically, and you are presented with two options...

1. start Windows recovery tools (repair)

2 start Windows normally

Until today, the option by DEFAULT always "start Windows normally" you wait a few seconds and finally windows restarts, and 99.99999% of the time everything is good.

Today after that failure critical ups all 100 machines has decided to "Start Windows Recovery Tools (repair)" as the default option and I had 100 machines, I had to manually connect a keyboard, restart, and then select the option start Windows normally.  Whereas there is a 5 minute break, it ends up being a cut of 5 hours.  (OK a KVM will in the next week, but it still means a lot of extra work).

I guess there was an update recently, which screwed using Windows 7 pro, for hosting services.   Indications as to why this was changed and what to do about flipping?

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