Has anyone found a way to ...

Has anyone found a way to get into Safe Mode in Windows 8 RTM ? For running malware scan's.

 

Shift F8 still does it, but the timing is fine - you really have to thrash the keys violently.
But the "soft" way, is to open Msconfig - "Boot" tab and select the safe mode option and reboot.

 

I'll have to try the Shift & F8 route. The msconfig route still leaves features enabled. It's not the real safe mode. Tried it in all preview versions.

 

brkkab123, you can tell Windows to boot into safe mode by using msconfig settings.

 

Thanks Clifford. The last time I tried using msconfig in Release Preview a few month's back, it still leaves feature's enabled. It wasn't the true Windows Safe Mode.NIS 2012 was active, as where most things that run in regular Windows.Just like I don't buy the fact that Windows 8's Check Disk does a full scan (steps 1 - 5) in under 10 seconds on a 1.0 TB. hard drive. Windows 7's Check Disk takes about 3 1/2 hours on a 1.0 TB. hard drive. I think 8's Check Disk is only doing the standard check of step's 1-3 and skipping checking for bad sector's, etc.. No way to change the option's on that in 8 either.
There are definitely a bunch of thing's Microsoft will need to fix in Service Pack 1.

 

Have you tried the default way of hitting F8 whilst in the boot manager - gives all the usual options?
On the other (Chkdsk) mine takes the usual time. It depends on the speed of the HD, of course. never really timed it but I would guess at around 2 minutes for the Windows 8 partition(140gbs)

You might like to read this:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2012/05/09/redesigning-chkdsk-and-the-new-ntfs-health-model.aspx

 

Try the Shift F8,it still works

 

LOL. Have a closer look at the date of the last post!