How to boot into Safe Mode in Windows 10?

How to boot into Safe Mode in Windows 10?

Way 1: Enter Safe Mode when you can’t boot normally

Safe Mode loads with a minimum set of drivers, software and service. Usually, when Windows doesn’t start normally, Safe Mode starts with no problem. It’s useful for you to troubleshoot the problem there.

This way works effectively when you can’t boot Windows 10 normally. 

1) Ensure your PC is off.

2) Press the power button to turn on your PC, then hold the power button down until PC shuts down automatically (about 5 seconds) . Repeat this more than 2 times until you see the Preparing Automatic Repair (see below screenshot).

Note: This step is aim to bring up Preparing Automatic Repair screen. When Windows doesn’t boot properly, this screen pops up and Windows attempts to fix the problem by itself. If you’ve seen this screen at the first time when you power up the computer, skip this step.

Then wait for Windows to diagnose your PC. 

2) Click Advanced options, then the system will bring up the Windows RE (Recovery environment.) screen.

3) On the Windows RE (Recovery environment) screen, click Troubleshoot.

4)  On the Troubleshoot screen, click Advanced options.

5) Click Startup Settings to continue.

6) Click Restart. The computer restarts and another screen opens showing a list of different startup options.

7) On your keyboard, press the 4 number key to enter Safe Mode without network. (If you need to do some online research after boot into the safe mode, press the 5 number key to enter Safe Mode with network access.)

Way 2: Enter Safe Mode from Normal Mode

If you’ve started Windows normally, you can boot into the safe mode using the System Configuration tool. The System Configuration tool allows you to configure how your PC starts, the boot procedure, the startup items, etc.

Follow below instructions to open the System Configuration tool and set Windows starts in Safe Mode. Just 4 steps:

1) On your keyboard, press the Win+R (Windows logo key and R key) at the same time to invoke the Run box.

2) Type msconfig and click OK. Then the System Configurations will open.

3) When System Configuration opens, click the Boot tab. Under Boot options, check Safe boot then click OK.

4) When you’re prompted to restart your computer to apply these changes, click Restart then you will boot into the Safe Mode.

IMPORTANT: If you want to start Windows 10 in Normal Mode, ensure Safe boot is unchecked.

Way 3: Start Safe Mode from the login screen

If you can boot to the login screen, you can enter Safe Mode from the login screen. The steps are similar with the steps of Way 1.

1) On your keyboard, hold down the Shift key.

2) While holding down the Shift key, on the login screen (you may call it sign in screen), at the bottom right of the corner, click the power button then select Restart. Then Windows will bring up the Windows RE (Recovery environment) screen.

3) On the Windows RE (Recovery environment) screen, click Troubleshoot.

4)  On the Troubleshoot screen, click Advanced options.

5) Click Startup Settings.

6) Click Restart. The computer restarts and another screen opens showing a lot of different startup options.

7) On your keyboard, press the 4 number key to enter Safe Mode without network. (If you need to do some online research after booting into the safe mode, press the 5 number key to enter Safe Mode with network access.)

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Scan suspicious attachment

Ever received attachment from unknown person and not sure to open it or not? Follow the instruction below to confirm that the attachment is OK to open.

1. First, download the attachment to your computer, it's OK to download the suspicious file, as long as you're not open it.

 

2. Save the file to a folder.

3. After that go to this website >>  https://www.virustotal.com

4. Click on Upload and scan file.

5. Select the suspicious file that you just downloaded and open it.

6. And the website will do the scanning and show you the result. The result of this file shows that it's a virus file.

7. Return to the email and Report it as spam. Lastly delete the suspicious file that you downloaded just now.

Microsoft Excel cannot open or save any more documents because there is not enough available memory or disk space

Microsoft Excel cannot open or save any more documents because there is not enough available memory or disk space. To make more memory available, close workbooks or programs you no longer need. To free disk space, delete files you no longer need from the disk you are saving to.

This is really annoying especially you have tones of space and memory available.If you tried this and still not working:

Right click on the saved file, click on Properties and uncheck the option Block and then try to open the file and check.

And also did some setting in the trust center still not working, try the following.

To resolve this problem, start the Windows Firewall service:
Press the Windows logo key+R (to open the Run dialog box).
Type services.msc, and then click OK.
In the Services window, right-click Windows Firewall, and then click Start.




I know Windows Firewall suxk and we always disable it when we first got the PC/Laptop, but this trick, fixed my problem and I got my excel file to open. 


Yes, I don't understand neither.

What Router Settings Should You Change?

Default profile for all user

Create a Profile Configuration Account

1. While logged on as Administrator , create a local Windows user account named Profile and add it to the Administrators group
2. Configure the profile:
1. Log on as Profile
2. Make desired profile, desktop, and application changes
3. Log out

Copy the Customized Profile to "Default User"

1. Log back on as Administrator (local)
2.  Download defprof
3. Copy defprof to C:\Windows\System32
4. Run CMD
5. C:\Windows\System32\defprof profile
6. Logout and login with new user ID for testing.

Running low on disk space on c:\ drive?

Need more space on C partition?

Here you can find more ways to clean files or to make more space on C partition

When you install you system operation on your computer is important to manage your hard disk very well, to avoid problems with space on partition C (system partition).

For more space on partition you can try for first time to clean up files you don’t need in 5 steps:

1.  Go to Start button



2. There you will find a spot to Search files or programs from computer


3. In the spot you need to write “RUN” and press Enter

4. In empty spot you need to write ”%temp%” and press Enter.


5. After that “Temp” folder open and you can delete all files from there.

How to rename files sequentially in Windows

It might sound strange but you don’t need to download any programs to perform a batch file rename in Windows.

All you need to do is to select all the files you want to change, right-click the first one in the list, select rename (or use F2), and type in the name.

This will automatically change all the other files with the same name followed by a suffix: (1), (2), and so on, just like in the image below:

Last minutes issue

This happen quite frequent, especially Friday. 😡

How to Find Your Computer's Name

Here’s a quick way to find out your computer’s name, something you might need often (like, when you are trying to connect a printer to multiple PCs). This method makes use of the command prompt in Windows.

Click on the start button, type cmd in the search box (In windows XP and older version, open run command, type “cmd” and press enter). Click on the result.

A command prompt window will open up. Type the word “hostname” and press enter.

Your computer name will appear. In my case it is “PGF-NB012”.

 

This way you can easily find your computer’s name.

How to Fix Microsoft Windows Search Indexer Stopped Working and Was Closed

“Microsoft Windows Search Indexer stopped working and was closed”

or

“Windows could not start the windows search service on the local computer error 1067”

There are a couple of things you can try out to fix this annoying as heck problem in Vista:

Rebuild Windows Vista’s Search Index

This method is quick and easy, but may not work if you are having serious issues. Still it’s worth a shot before going to the other steps where you have to delete stuff.

First, type Indexing Options in the Start Menu’s search box in Vista. Click on the Advanced tab and then click Rebuild.

You can also try clicking on Restore Defaults if Rebuild does not work. If for some strange reason you are not able to select anything on this page, you can rebuild the searcher index manually by editing the following registry key:

HKLM/Software/Microsoft/Windows Search/SetupCompletedSuccessfully

to zero and then restarting the machine. However, if you can avoid registry key modifications that’s best! Also, make sure to create a restore point before making any registry edits.

Delete the Windows Search Index Program Folder

If the above method did not work, you can try to delete all of the files associated with search indexing in Vista by deleting everything inside these folders:

C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Search\Data\Applications\Windows

C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Search\Data\Temp

If you do not see these folders, you need to turn on viewing for hidden folders by going to Windows Explorer or My Computer and then choosing Tools, Folder Options. Go to the View tab and scroll down till you see “Show hidden files and folders“. You should now be able to see the ProgramData folder.

Again, make a backup of the files in the directories before deleting them just in case, but they really are not that important. If you get an Access is Denied message when trying to delete the files, you will first need to stop the Window Search Index service by going to Control Panel, then Administrative Tools, and then clicking on Services.

The service should be called Windows Search or Windows Searcher. Double click on the service and click Stop.

After you delete the files, restart the computer and the index will be rebuilt and hopefully your error will be gone!

Hope that helps someone with a very annoying error! Remember the search index service is not critical, so you’re not going to mess up your computer by disabling the service or deleting it’s files.