If your PC is not booting and keeps throwing a blank screen then you will have to take another route to start Windows 10 in Safe mode. Now, hit enter and the F8 key functionality will be disabled.īcdedit /set bootmenupolicy standard In case, you want to revert the changes, open Command Prompt again and paste the following command. After that, it will prompt you to confirm your action, click on “Yes”.Ĥ. Simply click on “Run as Administrator” in the right pane. Command Prompt will appear in the search result. Press the “Windows” key once and type “cmd”. Here, I am going to show you how to get it back.ġ. It works just like before and it’s awesome. Nevertheless, there is a neat way to enable booting into Safe mode through the F8 key. However, with the release of Windows 8 things changed and now the F8 key functionality has been deprecated. It was the easiest and best way around to boot into the Safe mode. From there, you could easily boot into the Safe mode within seconds. In earlier versions of Windows, pressing the F8 key while booting Windows would open the startup menu. Now, Windows 10 will boot into the normal mode.

Further, click on “Ok” and restart your PC.

In case you want to go back to the normal mode, open the System Configuration window again in Safe mode and uncheck the “Safe Boot” option.

Launch internet explorer in safe mode