so picture this you're all excited because you found
this amazing free software that will record your frame rates anonymize your
web activity and control your smart fridge all at the same time
but then you install it and all of a sudden your computer is throwing more
pop-ups at you than a whack-a-mole game and try as you might you just can't get
rid of the bloody thing you're just about to sledgehammer your entire pc and
start over fresh but then you pause but what about safe mode yeah
what about safe mode it's your secret weapon
safe mode can be conveniently accessed if Windows 10 keeps failing to boot or
by mashing f8 a bunch of times on older systems at startup and selecting it from
the menu that appears but what exactly does safe mode do
well surprisingly safe mode isn't actually safe in that it enhances your
computer's security or anything like that rather safe mode starts your computer
with the bare minimum of drivers services and background processes that
it needs to function it would be a little bit like
firing up your car but the only things that work are your engine brakes gas and
steering wheel so no ac no satellite radio and no romance mode
the idea here is that by only loading the essentials Windows won't load
anything problematic nasty malicious programs are often
designed to start as soon as you fire up Windows so that they can immediately
begin serving you ads or stealing your data or what have you so preventing them
from being loaded into memory makes them much easier to remove
safe mode can also be used to fix or delete registry entries that are causing
issues troubleshoot an accidental settings change that's causing you
headaches or change out your drivers if your currently installed version is
causing your graphics card or some other piece of hardware to glitch out
safe mode is also a useful tool if you'd like to run system restore giving
Windows a shot at getting rid of the offending software or glitch by itself
by rolling your pc's configuration back to before the problem cropped up in the
first place in some cases the features that you'd
want to access in safe mode like the system configuration tool are also
available while booted normally but the difference is that in cases of a very
severe infection for example safe mode might help to ensure that your system
will function for long enough to go in
and actually make the necessary changes
keep in mind however that safe mode does have its limitations and you can't
really use it for regular computing if you fail to solve whatever the
underlying problem is because it only loads basic drivers and
services you'll notice all kinds of weird things like the fact that your
monitor won't run at its native resolution
and that many of your peripherals might not function properly also you can
forget about doing any gaming aside from solitaire or minesweeper because safe
mode only loads the default microsoft display drivers not whatever your GPU
manufacturer provides you actually don't even get support for
connecting to the internet by default though you can select safe mode with
networking if you need to get online while you're troubleshooting furthermore
unfortunately safe mode isn't a panacea
some system problems simply cannot be solved by attempting to fix them in safe
mode such as a hopelessly corrupted registry or a particularly nefarious
root kit that's embedded itself deeply into the Windows kernel and by the way
you can learn more about those little bastards up here in those cases your best bet may be to
just back up whatever data you can format your drive and reinstall Windows
nonetheless safe mode is a very useful escape hatch if your pc has more bugs
than the local hourly rate hotel so keep it in mind next time it refuses to boot
and as always practice safe pc tinkering
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