Kinda OT: Safe Mode

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Hey All - some help here please,

Is there any way to access Safemode without the keyboard as i have tried
many times and it just completes booting to windows.
Only way I could access the Dos menu (the one you select Safe Mode from) is
is to crash/turn it off it while it was
starting, even then the menu wouldnt respond to the keyboard.

WinXp-Sp2
Chicony Cordless keyboard

Thanks,
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Hey All - some help here please,
Is there any way to access Safemode without the keyboard as i have tried
many times and it just completes booting to windows.
Only way I could access the Dos menu (the one you select Safe Mode from)
is is to crash/turn it off it while it was
starting, even then the menu wouldnt respond to the keyboard.

WinXp-Sp2
Chicony Cordless keyboard

Thanks,
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- run MSCONFIG
- on the BOOT.INI tab select the "/SAFEBOOT" option and then click OK and
Restart your computer
- the computer restarts in Safe mode
- when you finish the troubleshooting in Safe mode, run MSCONFIG again, go
to the BOOT.INI tab and deselect "/SAFEBOOT" and click OK to restart your
computer
 
Good--that was going to be my suggestion! What I don't know, is whether the
keyboard will be functional in safe mode.
 
Andre Da Costa explained on 2005-05-14 :
My keyboard is always functional in safe mode.
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If you have a MS Intellitype keyboard you must press
"F Lock" after reboot.

On this keyboard default configuration is "Hotkeys" for
all common menu commands as new, open, close etc instead
of F1-F12

Not so good for a newbie who wants to restart in safe mode.
 
The O.P specified a "Chicony cordless keyboard."

I don't have any experience with cordless keyboards at all--I'm not
surprised that it isn't functional at the bios level, and I don't know
whether it'll work in safe mode or not.
 
If you have a MS Intellitype keyboard you must press "F Lock" after
reboot.

On this keyboard default configuration is "Hotkeys" for
all common menu commands as new, open, close etc instead
of F1-F12

Not so good for a newbie who wants to restart in safe mode.
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For your information - if you want to change the F-Lock function to operate
the keyboard normally as a default, and change to extended functionality
("heotkeys") after pressing the F-Lock key, then you can use Jason Tsang
(one of the Microsoft MVP) solution provided here
http://www.mvps.org/jtsang/flock.html

And I think that even before operating system starts all Fx keys work
normally (i.e. as F1 to F12, not as "hotkeys") - basing on my experience
with MS Wireless Desktop Elite. It's the driver in OS that changes the Fx
keys functionality, so it should be no problem even for the newbie to press
F8 during startup..
 
Thanks everyone, I'll try the sugestions.
just FYI I'm not a newbie :-)
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Well, couldn't read this between the lines... ;-)

Anyway it was just plun's suggestion that "one newbie" can have a problem,
not exactly meaning you, I suppose :-)
 
After serious thinking Mikolaj wrote :
Anyway it was just plun's suggestion that "one newbie" can have a problem,
not exactly meaning you, I suppose :-)
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Nope, my was about more trouble with keyboards.
 
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