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<blockquote data-quote="Merkuri" data-source="post: 5415772" data-attributes="member: 41321">Disabling safe mode can be dangerous.&nbsp; The mother may not be aware of this.&nbsp; If you do find a way to successfully disable safe mode then you could be eliminating your only way to recover the machine from a virus or a driver problem.&nbsp; Safe mode has saved my butt more than once.For example (this actually happened to me) if Windows Update decides to download a video driver that doesn't actually work and causes your monitor to go completely black when in Windows (making the machine unusable) you can boot into Safe Mode to roll back the driver or download a new one.&nbsp; If I did not have Safe Mode available when this happened to me then I would've had no choice but to wipe the machine (losing all of my data) and start over.A safer (though more cumbersome) solution would be to put the machine in a location where it and its power cord are not accessible to the child, like a locked cabinet (so he/she can't &quot;hard boot&quot; it by powering it off), and then log the machine in with a user that is not allowed to shut down or reboot the machine.&nbsp; That way the child never gets the opportunity to see the machine boot up and go into safe mode.&nbsp; This is the type of solution they use in businesses where random people need to interact with a computer.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Merkuri, post: 5415772, member: 41321"] Disabling safe mode can be dangerous. The mother may not be aware of this. If you do find a way to successfully disable safe mode then you could be eliminating your only way to recover the machine from a virus or a driver problem. Safe mode has saved my butt more than once. For example (this actually happened to me) if Windows Update decides to download a video driver that doesn't actually work and causes your monitor to go completely black when in Windows (making the machine unusable) you can boot into Safe Mode to roll back the driver or download a new one. If I did not have Safe Mode available when this happened to me then I would've had no choice but to wipe the machine (losing all of my data) and start over. A safer (though more cumbersome) solution would be to put the machine in a location where it and its power cord are not accessible to the child, like a locked cabinet (so he/she can't "hard boot" it by powering it off), and then log the machine in with a user that is not allowed to shut down or reboot the machine. That way the child never gets the opportunity to see the machine boot up and go into safe mode. This is the type of solution they use in businesses where random people need to interact with a computer. [/QUOTE]

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