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Wednesday August 29, 2007

Quickie Safe Mode tip for Parallels or VMWare

After a recent software update trashed my XP virtual machine, I needed to boot into Safe Mode to make a repair. None of the ‘normal’ Windows keystrokes seemed to be helping, until I discovered that what was needed was for the following keys to be held down as the vm booted:

FN-F8 (on a laptop)
or
Apple-F8 (on a desktop)

Hopefully this will help someone out there!




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5 comments so far to “Quickie Safe Mode tip for Parallels or VMWare”

  1. Avatarac
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    09/5/07

    Cool!!! I’ve always wondered how to get to safe mode in a VM. Great tip! :)

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    11/24/07
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  3. Avatarchris
    Reply
    12/5/07

    great…I was starting to loose my mind…
    for my macbook I used Command+F8…

    but still great …wonderfull!

  4. AvatarTK
    Reply
    12/6/07

    I’ve been searching through bunches of links for this. Thank you! Finally that something that works.

  5. AvatarJL
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    12/17/07

    This is great….searched for an hour for the solution…THANKS!

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