How to remove safe mode

Restart your computer. If your computer is starting in safemode and you want to change that, click "start"---->"run"----> type "msconfig" in the dialog box and click "ok".Click the "boot. ini" tab and uncheck the box next to "safeboot",click "apply" and "ok". Restart your computer.

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Hi,

Start - type in Search box -> MSCONFIG    find at top of list - Right Click on - RUN AS ADMIN

In MSCONFIG - Boot tab - Boot Options - uncheck SAFE BOOT = APPLY / OK

How to Start Vista in Safe Mode - see Method Two - 2. To Start Vista Back in Normal Mode

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/123496-safe-mode.html

If the above does not help start Windows :

StartUp Repair often works from a Windows Vista Installation Disk or Windows Vista Repair

Disk when it does not from Recovery or a Recovery Disk. If needed how to make a Windows

Vista Repair Disk is below. A Repair Disk can be made on any computer with a CD burner

running XP, Vista, or Window 7 as it uses no files from the Host computer.

Try Startup Repair from the Recovery Console (if you have one) or from a Vista disk - if you |

do not have a Vista disk you can borrow a friends (they are not copy protected) or make one.

Also your System maker will sell the physical disks cheap since you already own Windows.

This tells you how to access the System Recovery Options and/or with a Vista Disk

http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/Help/326b756b-1601-435e-99d0-1585439470351033.mspx

Try StartUp Repair from Recovery Options and/or a Vista disk.

How to do a Startup Repair

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/91467-startup-repair.html

Also from the COMMAND PROMPT of Recovery Console (if possible) or a Vista disk

SFC /scannow

Hit Enter

and after that runs

chkdsk /f /r

Hit Enter

( Spaces between C and /   k and /  and f and / )

Retry Startup Repair after Chkdsk.

If needed after those you can try System Restore from the Recovery or Vista disk.

How to Do a System Restore in Vista

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/76905-system-restore-how.html

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If needed :

What to do if Windows won't start correctly

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-vista/What-to-do-if-Windows-wont-start-correctly

What are the system recovery options in Windows Vista?

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-vista/what-are-the-system-recovery-options-in-windows-vista

What happened to the Recovery Console?

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-vista/What-happened-to-the-Recovery-ConsoleIf you need to make repair disks - these help repair Windows not re-install.

How to Create a Vista Recovery Disc - Free methods

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/141820-create-recovery-disc.html

NeoSmart now charges $9.75 for their ISO images to make the disks.

How to Make a Bootable Disk in Vista

http://www.brighthub.com/computing/windows-platform/articles/7050.aspx

Download: Windows Vista 32 bit (x86) Recovery Disc and Windows 7

http://neosmart.net/blog/2008/download-windows-vista-x64-recovery-disc/

Download: Windows Vista x64 Recovery Disc and Windows 7

http://neosmart.net/blog/2008/download-windows-vista-x64-recovery-disc/

How to Make a Windows Vista Repair Disk If You Don’t Have One

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/how-to-make-a-windows-vista-repair-disk-if-you-dont-have-one/

Hope this helps.

Rob Brown - Microsoft MVP <- profile - Windows Expert - Consumer : Bicycle - Mark Twain said it right.