Re: Booting in Save Mode

JJ,

>> 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.

Thats the whole point I tried to make : nowerdays "turn the power off" can
mean a number of things, *including* having the PC (lappy or otherwise)
going to sleep or hibernation.  It depends on how its configured.

... but I have to confess that I missed that the OP's "shut it down" was a
two-step process, ending in actually removing power from the 'puter.
And yes, having the 'puter go to sleep and than yank its power would not be
a good idea.

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

Grumble.  I took that from the wrong section.  On the provided webpage the
XP instructions are under step #7 , which mentions editing of the boot.ini
file.


So :

1) change boot-ini, execute "shutdown -r"
2) Restore boot-ini, execute shutdown -s"  <-- changed argument
3) turn the power off, wait a second, turn the power on, press the
power-button to commence booting.

The first two steps can be put into batch files.

Regards,
Rudy Wieser