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How To Enable/Active and Disable/Inactive Safe Mode in Windows 8? If you want to active Safe Mode in Windows 8 Consumer Preview, you’ll need to manually enable it first. How to do? Just follow the below steps carefully.



At the beganing, from the Metro Start screen type: cmd into the Search box. Right click cmd.exe and select Run As Administrator from the bottom bar.







The Command Prompt comes up. Type: bcdedit/enum /v and press Enter Button.







At this step you can Windows Boot Manager and Windows Boot Loader. Right click an area in the Command prompt and click Mark.







Now highlight the Identifier under Windows Boot Loader. Next, you should copy it into Notepad and keep saved. This way when you run the next command, you’ll have easier access to it if you type something in wrong.







Now the fun Command comes. Type: bcdedit / copy {identifier} /d (Safe Mode)


In the Identifier brackets you put in the Identifier you have copied under Windows Boot Loader. And you can add Description typing anything if you want to call it.





You can see the entry was successfully copied.


Now while still on the Desktop, use Windows Key + R to launch the Run dialog. Type: msconfig and hit Enter.





The System Configuration screen comes up. Select the Boot tab and under Boot Options check Safe Boot. Under Timeout check Make All Boot Settings Permanent. Click OK.





Here You will get a message asking if you are sure you want to change the settings, click Yes.





Now reboot your machine. Press the F8 key before Windows starts. You’ll get Advanced Boot Options. Click Safe Mode.





It's ok. Now you are in Safe Mode and can start troubleshooting your system.





If you want to get out of Safe Mode, restart your system and select Windows Developer Preview.





You can also turn off Safe Mode by unchecking the Safe boot check box for the Windows 8 Developer Preview (Safe Mode) option in msconfig.exe, and then reboot.

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