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Windows XP Advanced Options Boot Menu

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=== Safe Mode ===A diagnostics mode where only the bare necessities are loaded, hopefully allowing Windows to start so you can make changes and perform diagnostics.  Windows is started using only the minimum of drivers and services possible.  The idea being that an offending driver or service that might be preventing Windows from loading properly will be skipped in this mode allowing for Windows to load.Safe Mode with Command Prompt will load even less of the Windows GUI components so that just enough is provided for a window with a command shell is available.=== Enable Boot Logging ===Windows will attempt to load as normal, however, behind the scene there will be a log file created with each driver as it loads.  You will notice Windows perhaps loading slightly slower than standard boot on a working system.  On a system where a driver or service is preventing full boot, a study of the log might reveal that last driver that loaded properly along with the driver that caused the system to hang or fail to boot.
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