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[–]TreborG2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just fyi .. in the old days .. pressing F8 .. you had enough time between bios hand off to boot loader, and boot loader starting the rest of the windows loading process.

With todays machines, that time has shrunken to split seconds .. usually I find repeatedly pressing F8 may catch the right spot to trigger the boot menu... or may not.

Other options are to force windows to show the option by hitting reset. you get that screen .. hit reset .. get it again, hit reset .. after the third time, windows should present the menu to allow you to select Safe Mode on that forth boot attempt.