One of the minor but relatively long-standing bugs in OS X Mavericks has been an inability to boot to Safe Mode on some systems after upgrading. When attempting, the Safe Mode progress bar may display ...

With the release of Mac OS X 10.5.3, many users are experiencing issues that are potentially soluble through the use of safe booting. Safe booting not only disables potentially problematic third-party ...

Reader Simon Hansen finds his Mac slow to do his bidding. He writes: My Mac has been running very slowly lately and I wanted to see how much faster it would be if I disabled its startup items. But ...

Windows 11 is finally here and brings many changes and improvements to improve the experience for the end-users. However, not everything about Microsoft’s latest desktop operating system is perfect.

Safe mode is an important troubleshooting tool. It boots the OS in such a way that it uses the bare minimum files and apps to start and run. This can help you isolate issues, figure out where problems ...

No reader question today. Instead, I want to discuss Safe Mode, Windows’ stripped-down, minimum-driver environment. For years now, there’s been one quick way to enter Safe Mode—pressing F8. But that ...

If you want to reboot directly in Safe Mode in a Windows 11/10 PC, here is how. We have mentioned two different methods to force restart a Windows PC in Safe Mode: Using the in-built option and using ...

When you’re having issues with a Windows computer, one of the first steps to troubleshooting is to boot into Windows’ Safe Mode. Safe Mode is a simple, stripped-down version of the operating system, ...

The troubleshooting mode of an operating system. By pressing a particular key after the computer is turned on, it allows the system to boot with only essential components such as the OS kernel and ...

My buddy gave me his wife's Dell Studio 1737 to fix, tried to let it boot normally, got a BSOD with an error msg. Ok, driver issue. I googled and found out this ...