Safemode - Windows 8.1, 8

LilBambi · Feb 26, 2013

Microsoft changed things up quite a bit in terminology, and how to find things. Sometimes I wonder about the wisdom of so many changes of that magnitude.

jcgriff2 · Feb 26, 2013

Special thanks goes to Mike (writhziden) who told me about this -- after I instructed a Windows 8 OP to boot into SAFEMODE! :)

LilBambi · Feb 26, 2013

Awesome! Learn by doing! It's the only way to fly!

AceInfinity · Feb 27, 2013

The thing here to note is that you essentially don't get Safe Mode because of UEFI or "Secure boot", thus no traditional F8 key on boot to get to where you want to be. You have to disable UEFI boot in order for the original stuff to work.

jcgriff2 · Feb 27, 2013

PIA nonetheless.

I often boot into safemode to copy files out or do other tasks that run 10x faster in safemode v. normal Windows.

AceInfinity · Feb 27, 2013

jcgriff2 said:
PIA nonetheless.

I often boot into safemode to copy files out or do other tasks that run 10x faster in safemode v. normal Windows.

Other way is to take a trip to the past and morph your computer's visual into Windows 2000 by disabling all the effects. :lol:

My resource heavy perl scripts run much faster when I do this too.

jcgriff2 · Feb 27, 2013

That is a far worse option for me, Ace!

I guess I got spoiled -- Vista being my 1st Windows OS. Prior to that, Windows was used solely to get me out to mainframe-land of tax & law DBs.

AceInfinity · Feb 27, 2013

I'm a programmer, so personally I love the Windows 2000 look for some reason :lol:. If I was a pure graphics designer, things may be different for my preferences haha.

Anthony N · Mar 1, 2013

AceInfinity said:
I'm a programmer, so personally I love the Windows 2000 look for some reason :lol:.

Syntax and code my friend :)

I'd never give up aero, EVER.

AceInfinity · Mar 1, 2013

Anthony N said:
AceInfinity said:

I'm a programmer, so personally I love the Windows 2000 look for some reason :lol:.

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Syntax and code my friend :)

I'd never give up aero, EVER.

If you were a sole programmer you'd understand the beauty of Windows 2000 as a visual :lol:

It's the same thing for people that prefer CLI over GUI haha.

LilBambi · Mar 1, 2013

Function over form eh?

I love Aero and Windows 7! I love Mac OS X's beautiful GUI as well. I love KDE and Xfce for Linux as well. But I certainly love my CLI very much!

jcgriff2 · Mar 2, 2013

Anthony N said:
I'd never give up aero, EVER.

Glad to know I am not alone!!!

LilBambi said:
Function over form eh?

I love Aero and Windows 7! I love Mac OS X's beautiful GUI as well. I love KDE and Xfce for Linux as well. But I certainly love my CLI very much!

As long as "function" includes Aero Glass. :)

AceInfinity · Mar 2, 2013

jcgriff2 said:
As long as "function" includes Aero Glass. :)

:lol: Funny guy

LilBambi · Mar 3, 2013

jcgriff2 said:
Anthony N said:

I'd never give up aero, EVER.

Click to expand...

Glad to know I am not alone!!!

LilBambi said:

Function over form eh?

I love Aero and Windows 7! I love Mac OS X's beautiful GUI as well. I love KDE and Xfce for Linux as well. But I certainly love my CLI very much!

Click to expand...

As long as "function" includes Aero Glass. :)

Yes! Windows without Aero Glass these days really stinks.

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