rfIPS said:
Thank you for replying to my post. So, if I configure to start with Clean
Boot, I can still access applications as I need them? Just like in Safe Mode?
Lem said:
rfIPS wrote:
Hi Everyone,
I feel dumb asking this: what is the difference between Clean Boot and Safe
Mode? Can they be used interchangeably? I am troubleshooting a PartitionMagic
issue and the company said to perform a clean boot to resolve driver
conflicts. I've used SM before but not CB. I know how to configure it but
when I restarted my computer everything looked the same.
Thx!
Safe Mode starts Windoes with what MS calls a "minimal set of drivers."
For example, you'll only have the standard VGA video driver, which is
why the screen resolution looks the way it does in Safe Mode.
A "Clean Boot" starts in normal mode, but without all of the background
applications and [non-Microsoft] services that you usually have running
(most of which you probably don't even know are running). See
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310353/en-us
Yes -- maybe. It depends on on whether the apps you want to use depend
on something that you prevented from starting up. For example, I'll bet
dollars to donuts that Apple's Quicktime has installed its "QTTask.exe"
application to run at bootup on your PC. All this does is put the Q
icon in your notification area to enable you to start QuickTime, but it
consumes a lot of system resources just sitting there. If you prevent
qttask from starting by unchecking it in msconfig (i.e., doing a clean
boot), you can start QuickTime in the normal way or by double-clicking
on a Qicktime movie file.
See these links for lists of startup tasks:
http://www.answersthatwork.com/Tasklist_pages/tasklist.htm
http://www.pacs-portal.co.uk/startup_index.htm
Also see "How to perform advanced clean-boot troubleshooting in Windows
XP"
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/316434/en-us which uses a
combination of clean boot and safe mode, or to more directly answer your
question, "Games: How to perform a clean boot to prevent background
programs from interfering with play"
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/331796/en-us
Essentially, what you're doing either in a "clean boot" or in "safe
mode" is starting with less than the normal number of applications and
services. The idea is to get things down to a bare minimum that works,
and then start adding things back, rebooting each time. That way, you
can figure out what application or service is causing (or at least
contributing to) the problem.
