Thursday, May 14, 2009

Create a short icon in Win-98 to open in safe mode

Instead of restarting the computer and hitting f8 and then selecting safe mode every time I want to use safe mode, I use a shortcut icon that simply requires me to double click it. Most people really wont have a need to create this shortcut, but if your running windows 9x and you know that your going to need to use safe mode in the future then you might find this little piece of info helpful. First, right click your desktop and choose New:shortcut. Next, in the Command line box type win /d:m and hit next. Finally choose a name and an icon for your shortcut and click finish. Now right click the shortcut and select Properties, then click the program tab and click the advanced button. Check the MS-DOS mode box, and uncheck Warn before entering MS-DOS mode. Click OK twice, and now your finally finished! From now on whenever you want to enter safe mode, its as simple as point and click. Remember this only works for windows 9x.

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