Advanced security mode for novice to make the system more secure

Whether you're a novice or a veteran on the computer, as long as you use Windows, you will always hear a word: Safe mode. Beginners tend to understand this concept often ambiguous, what is the safe mode? Is the system usually "unsafe mode"? What can safe mode do?

What is Safe mode

For today's Windows 2000/xp/2003 operating systems, the stability of the system itself is no longer a problem, and a large number of drivers and applications are the culprits for the stability and reliability of the system. The system may have worked very well, but one day it was upgraded with a bug-driven graphics driver, or a new version of antivirus software was installed, and the system did not start properly. To address this type of failure that would affect Windows ' normal operation, but not Windows ' own problems, Microsoft has prepared a safe mode for this.

Log on to the system in Safe mode, and see a desktop that is very different from what you normally see, just as it did when you installed the system in a Windows 98 system without installing any drivers, which is the fact that when Windows is running in Safe mode, The system will only load the most basic services and drivers that can start the system. This allows the operating system to run with the fewest drivers and services and use a generic graphics driver that works at 640X480 's resolution while supporting only the keyboard, mouse, monitor, local hard drive, and the default system service. In safe mode, Windows does not load audio devices and other nonessential peripheral drivers, and Windows ignores all programs that run automatically with system startup.

Tip: The universal graphics driver in Windows xp/2003 will be able to display 24-bit color depth and 640 x 480 resolution in Safe mode, but these settings cannot be modified.

How to get into Safe mode

The most traditional and most commonly used method is to press the F8 key during startup: Turn on the computer power, after the hardware completes self-test, press the F8 key on the keyboard immediately, you will see the interface shown in Figure 1. There are a number of advanced startup options listed here. In this safe mode is divided into several, generally choose to enter the normal safe mode. In addition to this most commonly used method, you can also start the system in Safe mode by holding down the CTRL key while the computer starts.

Tip: For the details of several other advanced startup options please refer to the Microsoft Knowledge Base article, KB 315222:http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315222/zh-cn/.

In addition, when you are in normal mode of Windows, click Start/Run, enter Msconfig, and then select the General tab in the Open window, and then check the "assertion startup-load basic device drivers and services" item, and then click Apply/OK and restart. The system will automatically enter Safe mode.

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