To acess safe mode:
When your PC first starts, you will see a black screen with your System Information. Hold down the F8 key and before long you should see a menu - from this, select Boot Into Safe Mode and Windows will continue to load (Safe Mode takes longer to load).
As soon as you get into Safe Mode you should see a screen with a popup dialogue box, this gives you the chance to restart Windows or carry on into Safe Mode operation, which is what yah want to do. Click on the Yes to continue into Safe Mode.
You are now in Safe Mode, where you can check all your settings and drivers, and use System Restore if you are unable to identify the problem any other way. It behaves just like normal Windows, perhaps a little bit slower, so yah shouldn't have any trouble finding your way around.
A slow running system or frequent crashes could mean that there's something wrong with your hard drive. Check Disk is the relevant utility that can help you find out. Yah can find out it in the Start/All Programs/System Tools folde, so see if it fixes your problem.
You can use Device Manager to check that Windows is recognising your hardware correctly and to identify any troublesome devices.
Right-click on My Computer
Choose Properties
Then click the Hardware tab.
When your PC first starts, you will see a black screen with your System Information. Hold down the F8 key and before long you should see a menu - from this, select Boot Into Safe Mode and Windows will continue to load (Safe Mode takes longer to load).
As soon as you get into Safe Mode you should see a screen with a popup dialogue box, this gives you the chance to restart Windows or carry on into Safe Mode operation, which is what yah want to do. Click on the Yes to continue into Safe Mode.
You are now in Safe Mode, where you can check all your settings and drivers, and use System Restore if you are unable to identify the problem any other way. It behaves just like normal Windows, perhaps a little bit slower, so yah shouldn't have any trouble finding your way around.
A slow running system or frequent crashes could mean that there's something wrong with your hard drive. Check Disk is the relevant utility that can help you find out. Yah can find out it in the Start/All Programs/System Tools folde, so see if it fixes your problem.
You can use Device Manager to check that Windows is recognising your hardware correctly and to identify any troublesome devices.
Right-click on My Computer
Choose Properties
Then click the Hardware tab.
