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Disable Win 2000 Safe Mode

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by mktz

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I have asked this question before but i will try again. Does anyone know how to diasable the safe mode option or disable the f8 key.

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by rkelly

I'm not actually convinced that this is an option. Check out the following KB article for some interesting BOOT.INI switches Q239780.

To turn off safe mode (if it's possible)you will have to do something right at the start of the boot process so it cannot be a registry setting as this is not initialised until AFTER you get past the F8 message.

I would try a /SAFEBOOT:disabled option at the end of boot.ini lines and see what happens.

Obviously I would do this on a test machine first.

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