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Old April 15th 03, 05:54 PM
Tom
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Default Safe Mode for Windows XP Home

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.

How in heck do I get this thing into Safe Mode.

I don't have a floppy drive on this laptop. Only a CD
drive and a CD RW drive.

Thank you, Tom
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Old April 15th 03, 08:06 PM
Rabid_Roach
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Default Safe Mode for Windows XP Home


"Tom" wrote in message
...
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.







How in heck do I get this thing into Safe Mode.

I don't have a floppy drive on this laptop. Only a CD
drive and a CD RW drive.

Thank you, Tom



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Old April 15th 03, 08:17 PM
purplehaz03
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Default Safe Mode for Windows XP Home


"Rabid_Roach" wrote in message
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"Tom" wrote in message
...
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.


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Old April 15th 03, 08:32 PM
Rabid_Roach
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Default Safe Mode for Windows XP Home


"purplehaz03" wrote in message
...

"Rabid_Roach" wrote in message
...

"Tom" wrote in message
...
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.


I believe he read it in the the help file,
I just found it hard to believe he knew enough
to look in the help files, but did not know how to restart his computer.

I have some users who could be classified as ID Ten T, but was
not sure if the OP was just pretending to be.









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Old April 16th 03, 06:06 PM
Alex Nichol
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Default Safe Mode for Windows XP Home

Tom wrote:

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.


use Turn off Computer - Restart. Someone was mixing the descriptions.

Then as things come up, as the BIOS white on black vanishes to black,
hit F8 and get the menu to choose Safe Mode

Or you can use Start - Run and run
MSConfig
and In its BOOT.INI page, check /SAFEMODE
and OK when it will reboot to safe mode. You have to do it again, and
uncheck when you want to return to normal; then in the box about
troubleshooting check the 'dont tell me again' and click Exit


--
Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows - File Systems)
Bournemouth, U.K.
 




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