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Old 12-01-2007, 08:29 AM   #1
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how to boot into safe mode?

ok dump question yes, but how do u do it? and will that let u from there boot into last best known configoration?

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Suggest you repeatedly tap the key to make sure you get the menu - the window for pressing it is quite short before Windows boots.
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Yep thx fellas, got it back to desktop, thx,. ive just posted a thread in general hardware as to the problem im having and just needed to do safe mode to get it back to desktop as it wasnt booting at all, thx guys
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