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  2. Safe mode - Wikipedia

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    Safe mode is a diagnostic mode of a computer operating system (OS). It can also refer to a mode of operation by application software . Safe mode is intended to help fix most, if not all, problems within an operating system.

  3. Security and safety features new to Windows Vista - Wikipedia

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    The Windows Vista boot loader checks the integrity of the kernel, the Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL), and the boot-start drivers. Aside from the kernel memory space, Code Integrity verifies binaries loaded into a protected process and system installed dynamic libraries that implement core cryptographic functions.

  4. Booting process of Windows - Wikipedia

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    In Windows NT, the booting process is initiated by NTLDR in versions before Vista and the Windows Boot Manager (BOOTMGR) in Vista and later. [4] The boot loader is responsible for accessing the file system on the boot drive, starting ntoskrnl.exe, and loading boot-time device drivers into memory. Once all the boot and system drivers have been ...

  5. Booting process of Windows NT - Wikipedia

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  6. Windows Boot Manager - Wikipedia

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    The Windows Boot Manager (BOOTMGR) is the bootloader provided by Microsoft for Windows NT versions starting with Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. It is the first program launched by the BIOS or UEFI of the computer and is responsible for loading the rest of Windows. [ 1 ]

  7. Windows Vista - Wikipedia

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    Windows Vista is a major release of the Windows NT operating system developed by Microsoft.It was the direct successor to Windows XP, released five years earlier, which was then the longest time span between successive releases of Microsoft Windows.

  8. Black screen of death - Wikipedia

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    In the case of the latter, however, the computer will not be able to boot, even into safe mode. [2] [3] Booting from another device and uncompressing the files will usually solve this problem. In late 2009, several new reports of the black screen in Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7 emerged.

  9. NTLDR - Wikipedia

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    The code in the boot sector of the active partition could then be again a NTLDR boot sector looking for ntldr in the root directory of this active partition. In a more convoluted scenario the active partition can contain a Vista boot sector for the newer Vista boot manager with an {ntldr} entry pointing to another partition with a NTLDR boot ...