"Rabid_Roach" wrote in message
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"Tom" wrote in message
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I am tryin gto start my Windows XP Home version in safe
mode. When I go to the help instructions they tell me to
click on start, click Shut Down and then in the drop-down
list click Shut Down.
Next it tells me In the Shut Down Windows dialog box,
Click Restart and then click ok.

My Windows XP doesn't have a Shut Down icon. It has a
Turn Off Computer icon. When I click that icon I get the
options of Turn Off Computer or Restart. I have never
seen a dialog box drop down.

This has to be a joke, but I'll bite anyway.
Click on "Turn Off Computer", then choose "Restart".
Restart means restart, regardless of how you access it.
while the computer is restarting, or rebooting, or powering up,
watch the screen.
when you are prompted to press the F8 key to go into safe mode,
press the F8 key.


No joke. The instructions the op was reading come from help and support and
they are wrong. They are instructions left over from win9x. I sent this to
MS a bunch of times and an MVP in here once said they knew a programmer at
MS who they could tell, but it never got fixed.