“What is safe mode?” may be you have encountered with this word several times but don’t know what is the meaning of this word. Being a part of tech freak era, learning technology and technical words are not so difficult. Malware, viruses, and any other infected file can harm your computer like Slow computer performance, Erratic computer behaviour, Unexplained data loss, and Frequent computer crashes. Here comes the role of Safe Mode, Safe Mode is an essential tool to remove all these problems.

You starts your PC with a minimal set of drivers and services. When you start your computer normally, it launches startup programs, fires up all the services configured to start, and loads the hardware drivers you have installed. If you start in Safe Mode, Computer screen is visible in very low screen resolution with generic video drivers, doesn’t initialize much hardware support, starts only the necessary services, and avoids loading third-party startup programs.

Whenever you have found any problem which I have mentioned in the previous paragraph on your computer, the best way is to open your computer in safe mode.

Start Safe Mode in Windows 8 Environment

  1. The First step is to power on your Windows 8 computer.
  2. Click or tap on the "Power" icon at the sign-in screen after Windows 8 loads.
  3. Hold down the "Shift" key, then click or tap on "Restart." After that computer will launch "Windows Startup Settings.”
  4. Among all options provided, select "Safe Mode", and then press "Enter." Your Computer will now boot up in Safe Mode.

Start Safe Mode in Windows 7, Windows Vista, and Windows XP Environment

  1. First, the most important thing is to remove all discs from your computer, including DVDs, CDs, and floppy disks.
  2. Power on or restart your computer.
  3. Press and hold the "F8" button as your computer restarts. After that"Advanced Boot Options" screen will load.
  4. Click the "Safe Mode" among all the options and then press "Enter." Your computer will then start up in Safe Mode.

Start Safe Mode in Mac Environment

  1. Make sure your mac system is on. It is the most basic step.
  2. After that, listen carefully the computer's startup tone, and then immediately press and hold the "Shift" key.
  3. Release the "Shift" key immediately after your screen displays the gray Apple and spinning gear icons.
  4. Your Mac computer will then boot up into Safe Mode.

Start Safe Mode in Ubuntu Environment

  1. Open your computer who has Ubuntu OS.
  2. You need to wait until the BIOS has finished loading. During this time, logo of your computer manufacturer will appear.
  3. After that then press and hold the Shift key, which will bring up the GNU GRUB menu. (If you see the Ubuntu logo, you've missed the point where you can enter the GRUB menu.)
  4. Select the line which starts with "Advanced options".
  5. Select the line ending with "Recovery Mode", probably the second line, something like Ubuntu GNU/Linux, with Linux 3.8.0-26-generic (recovery mode).
  6. Press Return and your machine will begin the boot process.
  7. After a few moments, your workstation should display a menu with a number of options. One of the options (you may need to scroll down to the bottom of the list) will be "Drop to root shell prompt". Press Return with this option highlighted.
  8. The root partition is mounted read-only. To mount it read/write, enters the command mount -o remount,rw /
  9. If you have /home, /boot, /tmp, or any other mount point on a separate partition, you can mount them with the command mount --all