From: jj4public@gmail.com   
      
   On Mon, 1 Dec 2025 16:03:26 +0100, R.Wieser wrote:   
   >   
   > "turning off" is nowerdays a phrase with different meanings.  Laptop owners   
   > "turn off" by putting it to sleep/hybernation.  Also, desktop 'puters that   
   > are "off" can be re-started by nudging the mouse or pressing a key.   
   >   
   > IOW, many 'puters nowerdays are not /totally/ powered-down.   
      
   OP already said "... shut it down, then turn the power off, ...". So, going   
   into sleep mode after shutting the system down, would not make any sense.   
      
   > So, maybe a couple of reboots might be enough.  And that can be had by   
   > "shutdown -r". Getting it to boot into safe mode could be had by editing the   
   > boot configuration : "bcdedit /set {default} safeboot minimal"* - before the   
   > shutdown ofcourse :-)   
      
   OP has Windows XP, so there's no BCD and BCDEDIT. Only BOOT.INI and BOOTCFG.   
      
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