how do I trigger safe mode with networking without an f8 key?

[Todd]

Hi All,

How do I tell a customer over the phone how to
trigger "safe mode with networking" over the
phone? He won't catch f8 in time.

Is there a command I can have him run in normal mode
that will trigger it on the next reboot?

Many thanks,
-T

 

[philo]

Hi All,

How do I tell a customer over the phone how to
trigger "safe mode with networking" over the
phone? He won't catch f8 in time.

Is there a command I can have him run in normal mode
that will trigger it on the next reboot?

Many thanks,
-T

Run msconfig

Use the 'boot.ini' tab check "safeboot" and "network"

 

[Todd]

Run msconfig

Use the 'boot.ini' tab check "safeboot" and "network"

Hi Philo,

Right under my nose. Thank you!

-T

 

[J. P. Gilliver (John)]

Hi All,

How do I tell a customer over the phone how to
trigger "safe mode with networking" over the
phone? He won't catch f8 in time.

Is there a command I can have him run in normal mode
that will trigger it on the next reboot?

Many thanks,
-T

Philo's way is obviously the best! However, trying to catch things
during boot can be made easier by use of the Pause key; in fact it's
about the only time I've ever found a use for it.

(I'm also not sure if such things will work with a USB keyboard: that
probably depends on the mobo/BIOS. Certainly on older ones it might need
a PS/2 keyboard.)
--
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that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are
right. -H.L. Mencken, writer, editor, and critic (1880-1956)

 

[philo]

Hi Philo,

Right under my nose. Thank you!

-T

sure thing

 

[Todd]

Hi Philo and GIlliver,

The customer called me this morning and said
a reboot fixed everything. Go figure !

Philo's way is obviously the best! However, trying to catch things
during boot can be made easier by use of the Pause key; in fact it's
about the only time I've ever found a use for it.

Me too. That is why I had to ask. I look all over
?My Computer, Properties" and did not find it.

Why I asked was that the customer would have been
impossible to couch through the process.

(I'm also not sure if such things will work with a USB keyboard: that
probably depends on the mobo/BIOS. Certainly on older ones it might need
a PS/2 keyboard.)

So far I have found that USB keyboards will work if
you catch Windows with the f8 key quick enough before
Windows switches from BIOS to its own drivers.

If you are using a USB3 port, which works fine in BIOS,
you are screwed as Windows can only read a USB3
port after it load a separate USB3 driver. (Found that
one out the hard way: why can I configure BIOS
but Windows installer can't see my keyboard or
mouse?)

-T