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so picture this you're all excited because you found

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this amazing free software that will record your frame rates anonymize your

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web activity and control your smart fridge all at the same time

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but then you install it and all of a sudden your computer is throwing more

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pop-ups at you than a whack-a-mole game and try as you might you just can't get

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rid of the bloody thing you're just about to sledgehammer your entire pc and

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start over fresh but then you pause but what about safe mode yeah

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what about safe mode it's your secret weapon

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safe mode can be conveniently accessed if Windows 10 keeps failing to boot or

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by mashing f8 a bunch of times on older systems at startup and selecting it from

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the menu that appears but what exactly does safe mode do

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well surprisingly safe mode isn't actually safe in that it enhances your

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computer's security or anything like that rather safe mode starts your computer

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with the bare minimum of drivers services and background processes that

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it needs to function it would be a little bit like

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firing up your car but the only things that work are your engine brakes gas and

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steering wheel so no ac no satellite radio and no romance mode

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the idea here is that by only loading the essentials Windows won't load

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anything problematic nasty malicious programs are often

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designed to start as soon as you fire up Windows so that they can immediately

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begin serving you ads or stealing your data or what have you so preventing them

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from being loaded into memory makes them much easier to remove

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safe mode can also be used to fix or delete registry entries that are causing

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issues troubleshoot an accidental settings change that's causing you

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headaches or change out your drivers if your currently installed version is

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causing your graphics card or some other piece of hardware to glitch out

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safe mode is also a useful tool if you'd like to run system restore giving

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Windows a shot at getting rid of the offending software or glitch by itself

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by rolling your pc's configuration back to before the problem cropped up in the

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first place in some cases the features that you'd

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want to access in safe mode like the system configuration tool are also

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available while booted normally but the difference is that in cases of a very

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severe infection for example safe mode might help to ensure that your system

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will function for long enough to go in

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and actually make the necessary changes

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keep in mind however that safe mode does have its limitations and you can't

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really use it for regular computing if you fail to solve whatever the

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underlying problem is because it only loads basic drivers and

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services you'll notice all kinds of weird things like the fact that your

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monitor won't run at its native resolution

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and that many of your peripherals might not function properly also you can

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forget about doing any gaming aside from solitaire or minesweeper because safe

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mode only loads the default microsoft display drivers not whatever your GPU

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manufacturer provides you actually don't even get support for

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connecting to the internet by default though you can select safe mode with

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networking if you need to get online while you're troubleshooting furthermore

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unfortunately safe mode isn't a panacea

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some system problems simply cannot be solved by attempting to fix them in safe

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mode such as a hopelessly corrupted registry or a particularly nefarious

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root kit that's embedded itself deeply into the Windows kernel and by the way

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you can learn more about those little bastards up here in those cases your best bet may be to

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just back up whatever data you can format your drive and reinstall Windows

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nonetheless safe mode is a very useful escape hatch if your pc has more bugs

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than the local hourly rate hotel so keep it in mind next time it refuses to boot

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and as always practice safe pc tinkering

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