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Originally Posted by heero_yuy
I still don't understand why they changed it from something that worked perfectly well (F8) and everybody knew how to use and try to hide it so you need to re-activate it BEFORE you know you need to use it. Perverse logic at best.
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Reading some of the information, it's down to the change to UEFI and SSDs
http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/win...nto-safe-mode/
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I suppose that if you are running Windows 8 on a SSD-based UEFI system where as Microsoft says the F8 window is less than 200 milliseconds, you won't be able to use F8 to get to Safe Mode
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F8 only works if you catch the right point in the boot process. With newer machines it's all much quicker than it used to be i.e potentially down from a many seconds window to 1 second or less. So it's less likely you can hit the kit at the right point consistently to trigger the menu.