re: Remember F10
Sunday, January 4, 2009 at 1:47 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Ricer46
(23825 messages posted)
The F10 functionality is a feature of the specific brand of computer and has nothing
to do with the Operating System.
On Sunday, January 4, 2009 at 1:10 pm, Wy wrote:
>A while back I posted a problem I had with my XP. Simply put, it just shut down
>and everytime I tried to get it running again, it wouldn't get me past the options
>page that gave me the choices for safe mode, last known good configuration, etc.
> No matter what option I chose, even managing to run chkdsk in the hope that it
would
>get it going after fixing whatever it's supposed to fix, it still would return to
>that options page and go no further.
>
>Recently, I happened upon some info elsewhere about F10. I recalled the F10 option
>but had completely forgot about it, so I thought I'd give it a shot. I started
up
>the computer and just as it was loading, I kept pressing F10 until voila! I now
>got the choice to recover my system either by reformatting the hard drive or selecting
>the non-destructive recovery [not reformatting the hard drive, but losing some installed
>programs' functions]. I chose the latter and seemingly an hour later I was successfully
>up and running again like nothing had ever happened. Only a few programs I've had
>to reinstall, but everything else, including my documents, music, videos, pics,
all
>the stuff that really mattered, was still there.
>
>So the moral of the story is: when all else fails, remember F10. Whether this would
>work for all computers with XP or not, beats me, but it's certainly worth a last-ditch
>shot.
- Written in response to:
- Remember F10 (Wy: Sunday, January 4, 2009 at 1:10 pm)
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