Click Restart on the Startup Settings screen. From the Boot options menu you need to choose Troubleshoot > Advanced options > Startup Settings, as shown in the pictures below.ģ. See this tutorial for more ways to access the Boot options menu, including the scenario when Windows fails to load properly.Ģ. There are several ways in which you can do that, but an easy way is by holding the Shift key and click on Restart in the power menu. Method 1: Safe Mode via the Boot options menuġ. So here's how to boot into Safe mode, in minimal mode, with a command prompt, or network connection. With this approach, Microsoft is moving away from the traditional F8 option to choose Safe mode at boot.
From there on you can access advanced boot options such as Safe mode. The latest editions of Windows, respectively Windows 8 and 10, rely on an automatic detection of a failed Windows boot, at which time the Windows RE (Recovery Environment) kicks in. Check the 'Make all boot settings permanent' option and apply the changes.If you're trying to boot Windows in Safe Mode the "old" way by pressing F8 during the boot sequence, you'll notice that the method no longer works for Windows 8 or 10. Select the entry you just made and then check 'Safe boot' below. To do this, go to msconfig.exe from the command prompt and go to the 'Boot' tab. If you're unsure how to do this, just copy the contents of the screenshot below, changing the identifier number within the curly brackets to your own.Ĥ.Ělmost there now… The final step is to enable safe mode on this new entry that you've created. To do this, type 'bcdcedit /copy /d "What you want to call the new entry"', where your identifier is the string that you found earlier. The next step, while still in command prompt, is to make a copy of that boot loader that you just found. You're looking for the entry next to the heading 'identifier' under Windows Boot Loader, as we're going to copy that entry.ģ. To do this, type 'bcdedit /enum /v' (without the apostrophes).
Now, with the command prompt open, we want to list all the boot entries that you have. You'll need administrator privileges in order to do what we want to do here, so right-click the icon and select 'Run as Administrator'.Ģ. This will get you to the command prompt in the traditional environment.
Here's how…ġ.ğrom the home screen, do a search for 'cmd'. The alternative solution is to create a second safe mode instance of your machine that you can boot from, although it's a little more involved. The good news is that you can still access safe mode through a shortcut, but it's now Shift+F8. Unfortunately, when I had to use it shortly after installing the latest Windows 8 Release Preview, I had no idea how to actually get to it as the old F8 shortcut has changed. Whenever you get a blue screen of death on your PC, the first port of call is always the trusty safe mode.
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