Thanks Martmcd, and Bruce

Much obliged.
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"Bruce Chambers" wrote:

Geoffrey wrote:
How does one restart in Safe Mode with Windows XP.


Press F8 as soon as the boot sequence starts.


There's no provision for it.


Of course, there is.


The "help" explanation says to restart in Safe Mode one must select from a
drop-down dialog box and press F8. There's no drop-down dialog box.


Read the instructions again. The only time the instructions in the
Help files mention a drop down box is in describing how to shutdown the
PC. Obviously, there'll be no drop box during startup.


When I click "Start" then "Shut down computer", the dialog box that appears
gives only 3 options:
Standby, Turn off, or Restart

Can anyone offer some wisdom, please?


Read the *next* step in those Help file instructions....

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