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How to boot into Safe Mode in Windows 10

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It is not so easy to boot into Safe Mode in Windows 10. First of all you need to find it in troubleshooting options. We will try to list all possible ways to enter Safe Mode. Hope you will find a suitable one.

Boot into Safe Mode if Your PC Boots to the Welcome Screen

1. Enable the Minimal Boot in System Configuration

Within the user account press Win+R, type msconfig:

Go to Boot tab and set the checkbox shown below on the screenshot. Ерутб press OK and Restart:

1.This method will make your PC boot directly into Safe Mode.
2.When you need to boot Windows normally launch msconfig again and uncheck the flag.

2. Enter troubleshoot mode from login screen or user account

At the login screen hold Shift and press Restart:

The same can be done within the user account. You can hold Shift and press Restart:

The PC will restart. Here select:

Troubleshoot:

Advanced options:

Startup settings:

Press Restart button:

Select Safe Mode:

If Your Windows 10 PC Doesn’t Boot

1. Automatic prompt to recover

Very often the Recovery screen appears automatically if Windows failed to boot previous time. Hopefully it would work in your case. Here you are to press See advanced repair options and follow instructions from the previous section:

2. Create and use a recovery USB disk

You can create a bootable flash drive using Microsoft Media Creation tool.

All you need to do is:

1. Boot PC from USB.

2. Click on Repair your computer:

3. Select Troubleshoot.

4. Advanced options.

5. Select Command prompt.

6. Type:

bcdedit /set {default} safeboot minimal

bcdedit /set {default} safeboot network for Safe Mode with networking support.

7. Reboot.

PC will boot into Safe Mode.

For normal boot you need to uncheck the flag:

or run command prompt as admin and type:

bcdedit /deletevalue {default} safeboot

Adding the Boot Option to OS Selector

If you use this method you will be able to select Safe Mode at any time when your PC boots up.

1. Run command prompt as admin (how to).

2. Type

bcdedit /copy {current} /d “Safe Mode”

From this moment you will have a choice whether to start Windows 10 normally or boot into Safe Mode:

Thanks for reading.

Adam Swift

Adam is a real tech maniac. He likes to spend time testing phones, tablets, laptops, as well as any other technical devices, and write practical manuals on their functions. He often sleeps all day, but always works at night. Adam bought his first computer in 1999, being an absolute beginner who never held a computer mouse in his hands. He began to study Windows, constantly experimented and often crashed the operating system. But six months later, he was able to reinstall Windows 98 from a scratch on his own, fix almost any software problem on a PC, he also did hardware upgrades and realized that computers, operating systems and programs are now his biggest passion. In addition, Adam has always been a big lover of phones. With the advent of smartphones with Android OS, he began to pick at them much more than in computers. Now Adam loves to study privacy issues in instant messengers, blocking unwanted calls and other nuances related to privacy and security on the network. You can follow him on Twitter: https://twitter.com/tunecomp

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Karen says:

2022-02-19 at 15:28

thank you but my other computer will not do this have tried
will not go into safe mode will not even do any thing but says bad system code think will just give away but thanks for the vidio they help us old people.