Safe Mode (6.1.8)
At some point, you may have experienced your OS not starting when you've tried to turn on your computer. Without thinking too much about it, you might have turned your computer off and on again, and then by pressing the F8 key, accessed the Windows Advanced Options menu from where you select the Safe Mode option. The reason we do this is that Safe Mode is Windows, diagnostic mode and uses a minimal set of drivers and services. The F8 (see Figure 10.5) option can be used in the OSes, Windows NT to Windows Server 2003. For Windows Vista to Windows Server 2016, Microsoft offers Advanced Startup Options to recover OSes. Regardless, you can access Safe Mode with them too, but in other ways.
One of them is explained as follows: ...
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