How To Start Windows 8.1 in Safe Mode

[mavroxur]

Screw Windows 8 and all it stands for. I can tell you one thing, enterprise environments will never adopt it. We're running ~1,200 machines on Win 7, and will be for a long time most likely. Aside from the horrendous interface, maintenance is a pain in the ass on Win 8. The lack of an F8 is just a drop in the bucket of fail that is Win 8.

 

[mavroxur]

Or just hold shift and click restart

Unless the machine won't boot in normal mode to begin with. In which case, you're screwed & have to get a Win 8 install disk.

 

[Alec Mowat]

I hit shift-F8 during boot-up... you get several options for saft boot and command-line boot (no install media required.) It's difficult to hit F8 at the right time, but it works fine when you hit it at the right time.

Alt+f4 works just fine too. Not sure what these people are talking about.

 

[Alec Mowat]

Screw Windows 8 and all it stands for. I can tell you one thing, enterprise environments will never adopt it. We're running ~1,200 machines on Win 7, and will be for a long time most likely. Aside from the horrendous interface, maintenance is a pain in the ass on Win 8. The lack of an F8 is just a drop in the bucket of fail that is Win 8.

No one in your enterprise has a tablet?

Or a laptop with touch screen or tablet conversion?

That's very interesting, because Windows 8 would be great in those situations.

 

[littleleo]

Screw Windows 8 and all it stands for. I can tell you one thing, enterprise environments will never adopt it. We're running ~1,200 machines on Win 7, and will be for a long time most likely. Aside from the horrendous interface, maintenance is a pain in the ass on Win 8. The lack of an F8 is just a drop in the bucket of fail that is Win 8.

No one in your enterprise has a tablet?

Or a laptop with touch screen or tablet conversion?

That's very interesting, because Windows 8 would be great in those situations.

Most people I talk too have no interest in a Windows 8 tablets and that explains why they aren't selling. Most people in businesses use Apple and Android based mobile devices since they are so much easier to learn and use. Windows 8, and 8.1 must be the least intuitive O/Ss ever developed in the history of computers.

You know I think it was Asus was making a notebook that would have both Android and Windows 8.1 on it. But Goggle and MS complained to Asus and asked them to drop the unit.
I assume MS didn't want people to see head to head how much easier Android is to use compared to Windows 8, and Goggle didn't want to help sell notebooks with Windows 8.1 on it. It would have been very interesting, lol too bad it didn't happen. I would liked to have polled the the users a year later and see which partition they used the most.

 

[Alec Mowat]

Android is not secure for business use. I wouldn't recommend it in any way. It's very vulnerable since it's open source.

Windows hybrid tablets sync well with business accounts and office 365. They do sell, just a slow start.

 

[littleleo]

Some argue the opposite that because it's open source its harder to hide malware and viruses in it. Everyone knows Windows is the 1# target for viruses and Malware.

 

[Das Brot]

My laptop went nuts when I tried to remove AVG and it failed. I then pushed the power button because it froze, and now I can only get to the "insert password" area, and it doesn't go any further. If I press shutdown, restart or such, it always freezes and the screen turns black, but I can move the mouse cursor. On rare occasions it will restart with much trouble. How do I even get into safe mode from there? Any advise is welcome.