Now for some reason they seem to have changed how to get into safe mode when your Windows PC or laptop will not start.
You used to just be able to press the F8 key repeatedly to get your boot options up. Now you have to get into the Windows 8 recovery console on boot-up to get to safe mode. To get to the recovery console hold the SHIFT key and repeatedly press F8 after the BIOS screen if you see the normal Windows 8 start-up then you know that you have gone to far and you will need to restart your system.
From here you will need to select the troubleshoot option that is highlighted in the picture.
Then in the troubleshoot options you will need to select Advanced Options.
In the advanced options menu you then go on to select Windows Startup Settings.
Then you will need to reboot your system and you will be greeted with the familiar boot options menu, from here select safe mode, or safe mode with whatever option you need and then it will(or hopefully will) boot into safe mode.
Not sure why Microsoft have decided to make getting into safe mode difficult but they have and I guess we will all just have to deal with it…
