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Disabling the F8 key

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by fspicuzza

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How do you disable the F8 key? I have a customer who wants to deploy Windows 2000 Pro to outside offices and would not like to have his remote users to have the ability to go into "Safemode".

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by syscokid

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Comment:
Is there a way to disable the F8 key during
boot, so there is no way of halting the boot
process ?

Response Number 1
Name: Mick C
Date: February 04, 2000 at 10:24:56
Homepage: http://www.powerload.fsnet.co.ukSubject: Disabling F8 at boot ?

Reply:
I take it you are using Windows 95 or 98. There is a utility called BootEdit that will do what you want, plus a cartload of other changes. It is part of the Win98 Resource Kit.
Download it from my resource site
http://www.powerload.fsnet.co.uk/win9x.htm

Response Number 3
Name: sini
Date: February 09, 2000 at 20:01:43
Subject: Disabling F8 at boot ?

Reply:
Edit your config.sys in c:add or modify
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switches=/n
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/n prevents you while booting to use F5 or F8.

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