How can I boot my pc up in Safe mode?

[d00by]

Super Ghetto Method:
Hit restart button on your computer. Let machine boot up until you see the windows XP loading thing with the little chaser worm (3 green dot/lines) then hit reboot again (the actual button on the computer.) At this point, your compy will be like "wtf m8? I wanted to boot but something went wrong!" and it will bring up a fancy lil menu that says something along the lines of "Your compy crapped out instead of starting! I don't know whats wrong, maybe you do!" then choose safe mode and bam ur good.

[photo_angel2004]

Super Ghetto Method:
Hit restart button on your computer. Let machine boot up until you see the windows XP loading thing with the little chaser worm (3 green dot/lines) then hit reboot again (the actual button on the computer.) At this point, your compy will be like "wtf m8? I wanted to boot but something went wrong!" and it will bring up a fancy lil menu that says something along the lines of "Your compy crapped out instead of starting! I don't know whats wrong, maybe you do!" then choose safe mode and bam ur good.

I have been using this keyboard fro 3 years now and all this time I never knew there was a key on this board that would reboot it and fast too. WOW thanks. There is also a key that shuts the pc off without closing anything out.

I also found that when I do use the key to reboot it bypassess the pass word when booting back up.

[Chewy]

Try to avoid using those tricks regularly, like turning off the power to shut down windows, they are dangerous and not reccomended.

[d00by]

Try to avoid using those tricks regularly, like turning off the power to shut down windows, they are dangerous and not reccomended.

Microsoft LIES! Yeah, it possible could corrupt your files once every thousand years but I regurarly use the reset buttona nd shutdown button on the actual compy without any noticeable damage being done. I think the issue with avoiding restarts and power buttons was pre xp when they added some special doo hickeys.

[d00by]

I have been using this keyboard fro 3 years now and all this time I never knew there was a key on this board that would reboot it and fast too. WOW thanks. There is also a key that shuts the pc off without closing anything out.

I also found that when I do use the key to reboot it bypassess the pass word when booting back up.

i didnt know there was a restart button on kb's either. I think ur hitting the sleep button not the restart button. I was talkin about the actial restart button on the front of the computer case for the ghetto method.

[atifsh]

Microsoft LIES! Yeah, it possible could corrupt your files once every thousand years but I regurarly use the reset buttona nd shutdown button on the actual compy without any noticeable damage being done. I think the issue with avoiding restarts and power buttons was pre xp when they added some special doo hickeys.

let me tell u this , where i live power breaks are very common thus they r like pressing restart or switching power off without doing proper shutdown.

when i didnt had a ups think every month or so i had to reinstall windows cause everytime i had frequent power breaks there would be a problem. not to mention harddrive dies faster or bad sectors.

[Chewy]

let me tell u this , where i live power breaks are very common thus they r like pressing restart or switching power off without doing proper shutdown.

when i didnt had a ups think every month or so i had to reinstall windows cause everytime i had frequent power breaks there would be a problem. not to mention harddrive dies faster or bad sectors.

same problem with the power, just gave up setting time on vcr and microwave etc. XP is pretty forgiving. 98 was not.