How to Exit Safe Mode From the Desktop
There are a few ways to boot into Safe Mode, so there are also different ways to get out of it. The most common situation is you’re on the desktop and see the “Safe Mode” text in the corners of a black background. Exiting Safe Mode in this scenario can be done in a couple of ways, depending on the method you used to get there. If you used Shift+Restart or the Advanced startup option in Settings, or you’re not sure how you even ended up in Safe Mode, the easiest thing to try is rebooting Windows normally: A reboot should work in most cases, but if you’re stuck in a loop where you can’t quit booting into Safe Mode, it’s because you originally got there by changing a setting in the System Configuration utility, which sticks around even after a reboot. To exit Safe Mode in this situation, return to the msconfig tool and undo the Safe boot option:
How to Exit Safe Mode With Command Prompt
If you booted into Safe Mode with Command Prompt, and so all you see is the Command Prompt window, you have two options: Press Ctrl+Alt+Del and then choose the power button followed by Restart, or follow the steps below. Some other ways to enter Safe Mode are from a Windows installation disc using the bcdedit command, or by choosing Alternate shell in the System Configuration utility. If you got into Safe Mode using either of those methods, the restart command isn’t enough to exit it. Windows will reboot momentarily, automatically exiting Safe Mode in the process. If you’re kicked back into Safe Mode, follow the steps below. The stop your computer from booting into Safe Mode, enter this into Command Prompt instead: After pressing Enter, you’ll see a “completed successfully” message. Use the Ctrl+Alt+Del trick mentioned above, or enter the shutdown /r command to restart the computer. Either will take you out of Safe Mode and back into Normal Mode.
