Hello,
I am attemping to fix a friends laptop that is riddled with adware and viruses. I need to access safe mode to alter the registry, but there is no option to do this during startup, just an option to get to the computers setup. Then it boots straight into windows XP Home.
The Computer is a Satellite 1110
Any help much appreciated
Cheers
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Hi, the first two solutions I had thought of but the computer doesn't have a regular start up screen at all, just a tohiba screen with an F2 Setup option (I tried F8 about 5 different times with no result) and the computer unfortunatly doesn't have a floppy drive.
But the third solution worked perfectly! Thanks a lot A+!!
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by: jdgallPosted on 2004-04-13 at 23:20:17ID: 10820673
Usually you need to press F8 to access safemode, so tap that when you see the computers setup screen. You may have to try and time it just right because some computers are pickier than others. A way around this is to put in a floppy disk (but not a startup disk), and when you get an error press F8. Note that this will only work if the computer is setup to boot from floppy before the hard drive.
You may also need to press an Flock or Fn lock button on the keyboard to get this to work.
If you can start windows, goto start-> run type in msconfig and press OK. Go to the boot.ini tab, and put a check mark beside \Safeboot. Windows will start in safemode until you remove this check.