Beginners Guides: Windows XP Safe Mode Explained

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Hit F8 to boot your PC in to Safe Mode, and from there..... what? Safe Mode is a powerful tool for fixing problems in Windows, and finally PCstats explains how to actually use it In this article, PCstats will explain how Windows XP's various 'Safe Modes' work, how you access them and how they can help you troubleshoot various software and operating system issues. Now, isn't this a handy topic!? Windows XP safe mode provides you with a basic graphics driver (enough to display the user interface), access to your drives and windows configuration, and very little else.

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What if safemode fails just like everything else? Last time i screwed up windows, safe mode sure didnt boot. No one, not me, is bothered enough to make emergency start up diskettes and a full backup of the harddrive. Kinda leaves the only option left, which is to reinstall windows.

There are those cases. But safemode can save you a lot of time if you can use it (as long as your OS isn't completely crashed :p)