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To make the safe boot option appear every time Windows starts up, use the following steps.

• In windows Xp right click the my computer icon. Select properties and then select the advanced tab and click settings under Start up and Recovery.

In the system start up section click Edit. The BOOT.INI file will open in notepad. Save the fiel as boot_ini.back , this will serve as a backup if anything goes wrong.

• Now in the boot.ini file locate the operating system entry that you want to boot into safe mode, for example the second entry as below

[boot loader]
Time out = 30
Default = multi(0) disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\windows
[operating systems]
Multi(0) disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\windows="windows XP professional"
/fast detect
Multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(3)\windows="windows XP professional
Safe boot/ fast detect

You can modify the entry in the second line by adding "safe boot" after "Windows XP Professional" to distinguish between the two Ose.

• Now in the second entry, after "/fast detect" , add the following line:

/safemode:minimal/sos/bootlog/noguigoot
Now the boot.ini file should look like this
[operating systems]
Multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(3)\windows="windows XP professional
Safe boot/ fast detect/safemode:minimal/sos/bootlog/noguiboot

• Save and close the file
• Restart the computer now now you can see that the safe mode boot option appears every time windows startsup.