adding safeboot to the boot menu
1 Open a command prompt
2 Copy the current c:\boot.ini to another name (just in case)
3 With your favorite text editor, edit c:\boot.ini
4 Copy then edit the current boot line to another line. For example:
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Micro soft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect
might copy and then change to:
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Micro soft Windows XP Professional Safeboot" /fastdetect
5 Start MSCONFIG
6 Click on the BOOT.INI tab
7 Highlight the second line with the additional name of Safeboot
8 Check the /SAFEBOOT box with option you want
Minimal - Minimal set of drivers
Network - With Network Support
Dsrepair - Directory Services Repair
Minimal (Alternate Shell) - Standard Explorer Desktop
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