Re: Booting in Save Mode

On Mon, 1 Dec 2025 16:03:26 +0100, R.Wieser wrote:
> 
> "turning off" is nowerdays a phrase with different meanings.  Laptop owners 
> "turn off" by putting it to sleep/hybernation.  Also, desktop 'puters that 
> are "off" can be re-started by nudging the mouse or pressing a key.
> 
> IOW, many 'puters nowerdays are not /totally/ powered-down.

OP already said "... shut it down, then turn the power off, ...". So, going
into sleep mode after shutting the system down, would not make any sense.

> So, maybe a couple of reboots might be enough.  And that can be had by 
> "shutdown -r". Getting it to boot into safe mode could be had by editing the 
> boot configuration : "bcdedit /set {default} safeboot minimal"* - before the 
> shutdown ofcourse :-)

OP has Windows XP, so there's no BCD and BCDEDIT. Only BOOT.INI and BOOTCFG.