Re: Difference Clean boot and Safe Mode

Reboot = Clean Boot


"rfIPS" <rfIPS@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Thank you for replying to my post. So, if I configure to start with Clean
Boot, I can still access applications as I need them? Just like in Safe
Mode?

"Lem" wrote:

rfIPS wrote:
Hi Everyone,

I feel dumb asking this: what is the difference between Clean Boot and
Safe
Mode? Can they be used interchangeably? I am troubleshooting a
PartitionMagic
issue and the company said to perform a clean boot to resolve driver
conflicts. I've used SM before but not CB. I know how to configure it
but
when I restarted my computer everything looked the same.

Thx!
Safe Mode starts Windoes with what MS calls a "minimal set of drivers."
For example, you'll only have the standard VGA video driver, which is
why the screen resolution looks the way it does in Safe Mode.

A "Clean Boot" starts in normal mode, but without all of the background
applications and [non-Microsoft] services that you usually have running
(most of which you probably don't even know are running). See
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310353/en-us



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