Add security mode to Win7, XP boot menu

To be in safe mode, you need to press F8 at startup and then select “Safe Mode” in the boot mode menu. If we add “Safe Mode” to the system boot menu. It is more convenient to want to enter the safe mode. The author below teaches us to add the security mode to the boot menu of Win7 or Win XP.

Adding Safe Mode to the Start Menu of Win 7

Since the Windows 7 boot menu uses the BCD configuration file, we only need to add the Safe Mode menu to the BCD file. BCD file editing can be done with “Bcdtool”.

1. Start “Bcdtool” and then open “C:bootbcd”, then expand to "Windows Startup Manager & Rarr; Windows Boot Loader", and then click “Edit & Rarr on the menu bar ; copy the startup item & rdquo;, copy a current startup item to the list.

2, after selecting the copied startup item, double-click the “Description” in the right pane to open it, change its name to “Safe Mode”, and successfully add “Safe Mode”. After the menu, launch as an administrator “System Configuration Utility”.

3, switch to the "Boots" tab, select "Safe Mode", check the "Boot Options" under "Boot Options", and select "ld"; small & rdquo ;, the timeout is set to “5” seconds, so you can add the safe mode to the BCD menu.

Adding Safe Mode to the Win XP Startup Menu

1. Right click on the desktop and click “My Computer”, left click to select “Properties” in In the Opened “System Properties” dialog box, select the “Advanced” tab and click the “Settings” button in the “Startup and Recovery” section.

2, in the newly opened "Startup and Recovery" dialog box, click the "Edit" button in the "System Startup" item, then open the boot with Notepad. Ini file, we will copy the file in the file "multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect” Paste a line, and then change the Professional in the line that is pasted to "Safe Mode", and close the Notepad window after saving.

3, click “ start & rdquo; → run, enter msconfig in the open "running" window enter or click "OK" "Open" system configuration utility & rdquo; In the dialog box, under the "BOOT.INI" tab, click “multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP security mode" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect&rdquo Line (that is, the line that we copied, pasted, and modified when we opened the boot.ini file with Notepad), and then checked the “/SAFEBOOT(F)” Item, you can also select the NETWORK (meaning the security mode with network connection).

At this time, the “/safeboot:network” field will be added after the selected line, so when we restart the machine, we press the down cursor key and it will be found at startup. There is an extra line in the menu "Microsoft Windows XP Security Mode", which allows you to start the machine in a secure mode with a network connection.

Now when you restart, you can see the security mode in the Win7 or WinXP boot menu, and you can easily enter it by simply selecting “Safe Mode” or simply press F8 to enter the original advanced boot menu.