Entering Safe Mode in Home XP

From: shirl (gotterrs_at_earthlink.net)
Date: 09/09/03 

Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2003 14:49:37 -0700

>-----Original Message-----
>Dose Anybody know How to enter into Safe Mode with Home
XP? (F8 dosn't work)

>Dror
>
>Microsoft walked me thru this last Dec.
 1. Click start/click Run/type "msconfig" (without
quote marks)
2. Click Boot.INI tab & check "/SAFEBOOT in the boot
options box.
 3. Click ok to apply the change & restart the computer.

 Hope this helps!

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