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Rick:
just a suggestion, did they try 360?

it been doing well lately...

In safe mode, did they uninstall the video drivers and reboot, that worked a few times for me.

and Shane, did you grab a copy of that program I referred to your mailbox?
It helps restore the BCDEDIT to boot windows, maybe you cab know how it works to add to your program?

regards

Boggin:

--- Quote from: Shane on October 13, 2015, 03:35:58 am ---Its the users who setup a pin to login instead of a password. Safe mode wants the password not the pin and the users cant remember it.

Seems like a rather be design flaw to have a user using a pin only for a long period and then when going to safe mode they cant use the pin.

Shane

--- End quote ---

During my short incursion into Win 10, when I created a MS account to activate Cortana, it gave me a numeric password to log in with from the start - hope I get a new one if I ever go back into it as I'd have to dig through a lot of paper work to find it  :omg:

jraju:
Hi, Shane
                   Please see this link and the first post by remov2
                              He says that there is a hidden start menu  in safe mode boot to get to the desktop, thro which, you could access the run command and then msconfig to uncheck the safe mode. On rebooting , you get normal mode. would this solve the stuck in safe mode?
http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/software-os/f/4677/t/19486529
                          as i do not have windows 8, I could not try this

Julian:

--- Quote from: Shane on October 13, 2015, 02:34:57 am ---IN a upcoming update to my Windows repair tool I am moving a lot of the text in the main window of the program to a help file because of how cluttered I think it is.

Since it will have a help file this also means I can finally add a lot more things to it for the users who need it.

one of the things that I need to add is how to get out safe mode. But that isnt the correct term.

What is happening for some people is on Windows 8 and 10, they are using their online accounts, no big deal. but for some reason MS has safe mode set to use a different password their then online one, and a lot of users cant remember what that password was.

Safe mode is part of Windows and my program calls the bcdedit command to have the bott manager set to always boot into safe mode. Well if the user cant login the program is unable to run the command to turn that off and now they are stuck.

So If anyone wants to help me write a guide of ways to have the boot manger remove the safe boot options outside of windows would be very helpful.

I asked one user to do the boot options and choose command prompt, but it also wanted a password before it would show the cmd.exe window where they could run the command. So it either has to be run in the startup repair section where it normally has a cmd.exe option or Windows PE needs to be downloaded and ran from a USB.

If anyone has any info on this or wants to help let me know. I dont know why MS would do that with safe mode and the online accounts, but so be it, now I need to find a way to undo the boot edit without being able to get into windows and in a way a normal user can do it if they follow instructions. So msconfig isnt going to help on this one, but the msconfig will be one of the other guides in the help file to undo the safe mode option, that and simply opening my program as well :-)

Shane

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hmmm so with bcdedit command to start before user logs on, you will have to start it as a service.

 

Here is the startup sequence of the major registry keys, starting immediately after bootmgr has been read and ending with the program shortcut entries in the two Startup folders.

 

1. HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\BootExecute. This can include instructions to schedule the running of chkdsk but not user programs.

2. Services start next, followed by the RunServicesOnce and RunServices registry keys (if present)

3. User then logs on to the system

4. HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\UserInit. This points to the program C:\WINDOWS\system32\userinit.exe and the entry ends with a comma. Other programs can be started from this key by appending them and separating them with a comma.

5. HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\Shell. This should contain just one entry, explorer.exe.

6. Program entries in these 2 registry keys for ALL USERS start next:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run and \RunOnce

7. Program entries in these 2 registry keys for CURRENT USER start next:

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run and \RunOnce

8. Programs in the Startup Folders of All Users and Current User are started last of all.

 

Important programs like antivirus and firewall start early in the sequence as Services. The icons that appear in the Notification Area (bottom right of the screen) are just their user interfaces, i.e. options and preferences.

 

The additional location for 32-bit software in a 64-bit computer is HKLM\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node and HKCU.

marco_2:
Control Panel > Administrative Tools  > System Configuration.  Boot
tab, uncheck "Safe boot"


hop this help

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