How to Exit Windows Safe Mode – 5 Ways

In some situations, users need to find the answer to the question of how to exit Windows Safe Mode. Sometimes, for some reason, the safe mode of the operating system does not exit.

Safe Mode is a special Windows diagnostic mode in which the operating system configuration has limited functionality, in which only the most necessary modules are loaded. Windows Safe Mode is used to solve problems in the operation of the OS, or to remove viruses from the system.

After emergency work is completed, you must disable Windows Safe Mode to continue using your computer normally. Not all users know how to do this, and it happens that for various reasons the PC boots up again in Safe Mode.

There are several ways to help solve the problem of how to exit Windows Safe Mode:

• Restart your computer.
• Change the Windows startup type in the built-in System Configuration tool.
• Executing a command on the command line.
• Select the startup mode when the computer is turned on.
• Run a command from the Windows RE recovery environment.

This article provides instructions on how to exit Safe Mode in various ways on a computer running Windows 11, Windows 10, Windows 8.1, Windows 8, Windows 7.

How to disable safe mode on a Windows computer – 1 way

The easiest way to disable safe mode is to restart your computer. In some cases, the problem can be solved in this simple way.

Follow simple steps:

1. You need to enter the Start menu, and then, depending on the interface of the operating system, find the item “Shut down” (in Windows 11 and Windows 10 – “Shut down or log off the system”), and select “Restart” in the context menu.
2. After rebooting the PC, the Windows operating system should boot in normal mode.

If this does not happen, and the computer boots into Safe Mode again, use other methods to resolve the problem.

How to exit safe mode on Windows 11, Windows 10, Windows 8, Windows 7 – method 2

The Windows operating system has a system tool – “System Configuration”, designed to configure OS settings. Among other options, the tool has options to select the Windows startup mode. This method works the same in all modern versions of Windows.

Go through the steps:

1. Press the “Win” + “R” keys.
2. In the “Run” dialog box that opens, in the “Open…” field, enter the command “msconfig” (without quotes).
3. Press the “Enter” key.
4. In the System Configuration window, open the Boot tab.
5. In the “Boot Options” section, uncheck the box next to the “Safe Mode” option, and then click on the “OK” button.
6. In the warning window, click on the “Reboot” button for the configuration changes to take effect.

After restarting the PC, the Windows operating system will start in normal mode.

How to exit safe mode on a PC – 3 way

The next method involves exiting safe mode using another system tool – the Windows command line. This option can be applied in the same way in different versions of the Windows operating system.

Do the following:

1. Run Command Prompt as Administrator .
2. In the command line interpreter window, enter the command:

bcdedit /deletevalue {default} safeboot

3. Press the “Enter” key.
4. Close Command Prompt, and then restart your computer.

Choosing a boot mode at Windows startup – 4 way

In the Windows operating system, when you start your computer, you can bring up a menu that offers additional boot options. Before starting the OS, a similar window opens on the screen in different versions of Windows.

Go through the following steps:

1. Immediately after starting the PC, you need to press the F8 key several times, and on many laptops you need to simultaneously press the F8 + Fn keys.

There is one caveat for this method to work: the computer must have the Fast Startup feature disabled in Windows 10 or Windows 11 if you have this operating system installed. In addition, on some computers, after pressing the “F8” key, a menu will open for selecting the disk from which you want to boot to the PC. Select the system disk, press the “Enter” key, and then press the “F8” key again.

2. In the “Advanced Boot Options” window, use the “↑” and “↓” arrows on your keyboard to navigate to the “Normal Windows Boot” item.
3. Press the “Enter” key.

How to exit safe mode Windows 11, Windows 10, Windows 8, Windows 7 – 5 way

There is another way to disable Windows Secure Boot Mode. In some cases, it is impossible to exit Windows Safe Mode, for example, if you forgot your login password.

This method can solve the problem without logging into the Windows operating system. You will need a bootable Windows flash drive, a Windows Recovery Disc, or a Windows image installation DVD. For work, we will use the Windows RE recovery environment.

In this example, we will analyze how to exit the safe mode of Windows 10 or Windows 11. In the Windows 8 (Windows 8.1) operating system, similar steps are performed. In the Windows 7 operating system, only the interface of the Recovery Environment Tool is different.

Do the following:

1. In the first window of the Windows Setup program, click on the “Next” button.
2. In the next window, click on the “System Restore” link located in the lower left corner of the window.
3. In the “Select action” window, you need to click on the “Troubleshooting” button.
4. In the next “Advanced Options” window, select the “Command Prompt” option.
5. In a command prompt window, run the following command:

bcdedit /deletevalue {default} safeboot

6. After successful execution of the command, close the command line interpreter window.
7. In the Select Action window, click the Continue button.
8. The computer will start in normal mode.

As a result, the Windows safe mode was exited on the PC through the command line used from the Windows RE recovery environment.

Article Conclusions

After completing the work on the computer that is performed in safe mode (Safe Mode), you must enter the normal startup mode of the Windows operating system. Inexperienced users have questions about how to disable safe mode in Windows 11, Windows 10, Windows 8, Windows 7.

The user can use several methods to exit Windows Safe Mode: by restarting the computer, changing the OS startup order in the system configuration, executing a command from the command line, changing the boot option when the operating system starts, executing a command from the Windows RE recovery environment.