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  2. Safe mode - Wikipedia

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    Windows 11 running in safe mode. Microsoft Windows' safe mode (for 7/Vista [1] /XP [2] /2000/ME/98/95 [citation needed]) is accessed by pressing the F8 key as the operating system boots. [3] Also, in a multi-boot environment with multiple versions of Windows installed side by side, the F8 key can be pressed at the OS selector prompt to get to ...

  3. Booting process of Windows - Wikipedia

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    In Windows NT, the booting process is initiated by NTLDR in versions before Vista and the Windows Boot Manager in Vista and later. [4] The boot loader is responsible for accessing the file system on the boot drive, starting ntoskrnl.exe, and loading boot-time device drivers into memory. Once all the boot and system drivers have been loaded, the ...

  4. EasyBCD - Wikipedia

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    EasyBCD runs on Windows and modifies the Windows Boot Configuration Data (BCD) to add support for other operating systems. Windows NT, Windows 2000, and Windows XP are supported by handing off the control of boot to either NTLDR or the EasyBCD-specific EasyLDR, which bypasses NTLDR and boots directly into the OS. [4]

  5. List of features removed in Windows XP - Wikipedia

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    Some of the sounds from Windows 2000 are The Microsoft Sound, Windows Logoff Sound and Windows Logon Sound are removed but the sounds in Media folder are stored. It is no longer possible to save or delete schemes under the Appearance tab of Display Properties. The option to select a Pattern under the Background (9x/NT)/ Desktop (XP) tab of ...

  6. Blue screen of death - Wikipedia

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    Windows 2000 used its built-in kernel mode font, Windows XP, Vista, and 7 use the Lucida Console font, and Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 used the Segoe UI font. BSoDs on Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 are rendered in higher resolutions than previous versions of Windows, where it uses the highest screen resolution available on UEFI machines.

  7. Black screen of death - Wikipedia

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    In the case of the latter, the computer will not be able to boot, even into safe mode. [2] [3] Booting from another device and uncompressing the files will usually solve this problem. In late 2009, several new reports of the black screen of death in Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7 emerged. At first, several claims pointed at Windows ...

  8. MS-DOS - Wikipedia

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    The early versions of Windows ran on top of MS-DOS. At first Windows met with little success, but this was also true for most other companies' efforts as well, for example GEM. After version 3.0, Windows gained market acceptance. Windows 9x used MS-DOS to boot the Windows kernel in protected mode. Basic features related to the file system, such ...

  9. Why XP mode is good: It runs stuff under XP | TechCrunch

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    The folks at DownloadSquad, however, note that XP mode isn't just an admission of defeat by Microsoft. It is, instead, it is a way to allow folks to run POS systems on new hardware. Fair enough.