Safe with Safe mode

Someday suddenly our familiar computer becomes a witness, refusing to start smoothly to load the operating system with a familiar screen interface . There are many reasons for this.

After eliminating the cause of the hardware, do not hasten to intervene by reformatting the drive to reinstall the operating system by Windows that has prepared the user for a safe fix through Safe mode.

Maybe because you have installed many new software, load drivers for certain devices and conflicts occur. Please restart the computer, when receiving the Please select the operating system to start message, press F8 to enter boot mode with Safe mode, with this mode the operating system only loads programs and drivers The most essential basic equipment. What is considered excessive will not load up. After entering Windows, it is possible from that graphical environment to troubleshoot, can also access Safe mode, next only need to restart the computer and finish. With Windows XP Safe mode includes:

- Safe mode: Load the most essential drivers and files as shown.

- Safe mode with Networking: Run under this mode, in addition to loading files, drivers as usual, there will be additional services to help us work in the network.

- Safe mode with Command Prompt: This option allows you to run the program and call a cmd.exe file to operate in the command line interface environment, of course users must be familiar with the commands on Dos.

- Enable Boot Logging: All device drivers and services loaded will be recorded in a file named ntbtlog.txt very useful so that we can read and find out the exact cause of the problem for the system. system.

- Enable VGA Mode: Start and load the basic Windows driver for graphics acceleration card. It is quite useful to determine if you have previously installed a new driver for the graphics accelerator card and that is the cause of the problem.

- Last Known Good Configuration: The computer is started and uses the information in the Registry that Windows saved from the last complete shutdown.

- Directory Service Restore Mode: Start and can restore via System Restore.

- Debugging Mode: Can recover via Remote Install Service.

The default of running Safe mode is the light box that is normally located in the Windows startup, so if you want to choose 1 of 8 ways, you must use the arrow keys to move to and press Enter. When the device has entered Safe mode, finding the cause and recovering the consequences for the operating system will be easier than installing the new operating system. Of course these are errors, not so serious conflicts that Windows can fix.

Ta Xuan Quan