When your Windows-operated PC or laptop starts acting up, the cause could be any number of problems. Here's how to boot in safe mode and solve it.

How to use Windows Safe Mode You’ve got three different Safe Modes to choose from. Screenshot: Microsoft To get to Safe Mode, you need to boot Windows into its Recovery Environment.

Safe Mode is a basic diagnostic mode for your operating system that starts the computer without most of its drivers and software.

So I'm trying to disable booting into the Windows Advanced Options Menu (aka safe mode, several other options) via F8 at startup, in XP Pro. The computers are set up with two users, one's the ...