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Old 21st June 2012, 10:34
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Hi All,
I was wandering What is the best practice for disabling windows safe mode in enterprise environment? Do safety standard recommends to disable it?
I need references. can some one help me in this regard.

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Old 21st June 2012, 14:36
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Default Re: Disabling Windows OS Safe Mode
I would think it would depend on the network and the security policies in place. I do not disable it in my domain.
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Old 21st June 2012, 14:50
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is there any Microsoft verdict, that whether disabling safe mode is recommended or not.
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Default Re: Disabling Windows OS Safe Mode
Just curious as to why you want to disable a tool that can save you work.
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Default Re: Disabling Windows OS Safe Mode
Safe mode is a disaster recovery tool (of sorts) so why would you want to disable it -- if it even CAN be disabled?
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Default Re: Disabling Windows OS Safe Mode
Your servers should be physically secure anyway, so no-one unauthorised should be able to boot them into safe mode. I can't think of any security reasons for disabling it either.
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Default Re: Disabling Windows OS Safe Mode
Holy Cow. Safe Mode has saved my bacon several times.

I'd be interested to know if anyone has actually achieved this and why they needed to disable it.
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Default Re: Disabling Windows OS Safe Mode
Apparently it can be done. Why is a different matter.

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http://www.disablesafemode.com/

http://www.shockingsoft.com/EnableDisableSafeMode.html

I HAVE NOT AND WILL NOT TEST THESE APPS. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK.
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