safe mode

Trying to upgrade from Wondows 7 Pro to Windows 10. This process has crashed about 10 times, have been going back to Windows 7 working on drivers. I did a "clean boot" and did get Windows 10 to install. But then I went back to a normal startup, which killed it on reboot. I'm trying to boot...

Hi guys recently i install windows 7 pro 64bit, today actually, the problem is i cant install adobe flash player, stucks on 5% and says network connection error somethink like this. i cant install vlc media player, says NCSIS error. i cant unzip-unrar files says is corrupt. in some programs say...

Hey guys, I really need some help. Whenever my computer starts up on the normal mode, I can do anything until after about a minute or so, then it completely freezes and the only way to turn it back on is the shut off button. Even after I shut off and on it still freezes after a minute. I am...

Hello, Recently I had been facing a few problems with my computer as it had started to lag and disk usage had spiked to 100%. In attempt to solve this problem, I tried to boot in safe mode using msconfig.exe. Having done so, my computer refuses to boot anymore. After my dell initialisation...

basically while I'm on my computer I'm finding at random times my computer monitor goes black similar to how you switch sources except it stays black and I can't do anything about it ovi I went into safemode and tried to deal with it by downloading software to remove old drivers as that is what...

I can't get my Wondows 10 PC to boot up because I made a big mistake. Everything was fine, no problems. I had an old pc and wanted to get some things off of the hard drive, so I put the old pc's hard drive into my current pc. It was recognized as drive H, I think. I was able to copy stuff off...

Hello Windows Forum. When i boot my pc and log into windows I'm able to use it as normal, but after 10 - 15 minutes its freezes and I'm not able to do anything, I have to press my restart button to use it again. After the restart there is no more freezes. It only happens after a full shutdown...

i get as far as the windows splash screen and then the screen goes blank and just says "vga no signal". It boots up fine in safe mode. So far I have unplugged all usb devices from pc and formatted hard drive. When i formatted it booted up fine the first time. I updated windows then rebooted...

I forgot my adminstrators password on my laptop,windows 8.1, and that is my only windows account, how can i recovery my password without the disc. It wont let me go into safe mode cause i still need the password. please help!

(Note: I have been updating from Windows 7 to Windows 10). I have installed Windows 10 on a laptop and two PC’s All went well but today (3 days later) my main PC when switch this morning on gave me the following. (Fig1) System Thread Exception Not Handled (igdkmd64.sys) I looked at all the...

So, this morning Windows decided I wasn't having enough fun in my life, and decided to fuck with me. Yesterday, it had updated but I had not yet restarted. I hadn't scheduled it - in fact the schedule window was open so I could dictate when I wanted the thing to update. When I woke up, I saw...

My computer was running fine yesterday. I was copying my iTunes music library file into Drop Box to transfer to my new computer. I left this unattended to do something else. When I came back to check on it, all of my desktop icons were gone and so was the task bar. Control, Alt, Delete did not...

I was trying to reset my computer which is running Windows 10 but about half way through the reset it said something like it failed to reset and then just turned off. When I turned it back on I tried to boot it from the "choose an operating system" boot menu as always, but once I chose Windows...

Hi guys, I have a friends vista pc that i suspect the hard drive has semi caped out on him, I can view it as an external on my mac, But when i go to create a disk image it takes 5 weeks, When i boot it up ''I've tried it in three different pc's'' It comes up with ''diskette 0 failed continue...

Where did Safe Mode go in Windows 10 1511 ? Hitting shift key doen't bringg up any options to restart pc, etc. Also there isn't a power icon on the login screen anymore.

November 2015 update I had an automatic Vista security update downloaded 11/12/15 . My PC now shuts down every time during startup process, with error message re BlueScreen. I have tried ( in SAFE mode ) going to control panel to uninstall the recent updates, but get a message that uninstall...

First off I want to let you know that I do not know much about computers. Today I turned my laptop on and it booted just fine. I went to move the mouse to select the start menu and the mouse will not move. I tied hitting the Windows key on my keyboard and it didn't do anything. I've tied...

I have been having an intermittent problem with my Win7 machine. I have several programs that automatically launch at startup, but sometimes it gets stuck partway through this process and leaves only some of the programs launch, with some of them apparently having hung, and never launches the...

I was reading a topic at another website where the poster had been doing ping tests. What has me curious is the fact that their pings in Safe Mode were faster that those run normally. Can someone here tell why this would be?

Hi I really wish that Microsoft would make an easy way to get into safe mode on a computer that won't boot. I've had to deal with several issues that I believe I could have fixed easily if I could just have selected "Boot into Safe Mode" or "Boot to last good Configuration". The truth is...