Windows 10: How do i exit Safe Mode, Alternate Shell Windows 7

As a dumb kid, i wanted to use Safe Mode just to show to friends, but then, i wanted to try the other options of the Safe Mode Principal one Minimal, then there's Alternate Shell, etc, so i chose Alternate Shell The Safe Mode that only uses CMD & nothing else, not even a Desktop or something.And then, i can't exit the Safe Mode, i don't know how, i don't even know how to use CMD, i use Help, but don't find any command that could help me to exit the Safe Mode Or the explanation isn't clear enough to me lolI'm trying to search how, but barely anything for the Alternate Shell, surely be

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exit safe mode 'alternate shell'

I expect some abuse for getting into this condition, but here's where I am, and need to escape from.

Windows 10 Professional 64bit current business release. In msconfig, I set to reboot in 'alternate shell' and now after reboot I cannot escape. The reason: my hotmail/outlook login password is not recognised, so when I try to run msconfig from the command
prompt, my password is rejected. I can use it to login to hotmail/outlook (I don't really know the difference) because I just verified this. I do not use this password to authorise login to the PC in question, I use what is called a PIN which is a numeric
code. This also does not work, either at the login screen that comes before the command line shell, or when prompted by my attempt ot run msconfig. I use it all the time including today to login to the admin account of PC in question. This is the only admin
account.

So neither PIN nor password for the admin account works, either for login or to run msconfig. Therefore I am pretty much stuck with the command line, but I'm no command line expert, I know DOS is no more, so I don't really even know what shell I am in.

My only route in is:

Power down. Start. Bitlocker key accepted.

Microsoft Cave Image login screen (low-res because safe mode): login as user

Command prompt. Windows V10.0.16299.371

C:\windows\system32>

What to do from here?

I had a look for other routes like https://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/stuck-in-alternateshell-safe-mode but it is very old, does not work, and this is getting a bit hairy anyway, editing boot.ini in an unknown editor. Any assistance gratefully received!
The original problem was not severe, the machine is in ok state otherwise. My only other boot medium is a USB stick downloaded from Dell a couple of months ago but can't see how to boot from this on the f12.

Obviously not a smart position to get into, but it's where I am. Thanks in anticipation.

 

how to exit safe mode in Windows 10

Hi Ron,

Thank you for responding.

I suggest you to try the below steps to exit from the Safe mode on Windows 10.

Steps to place the computer in normal mode.

• Press Windows + R keys to open
  Run command.
• Type msconfig and press
  Enter.
• In the System Configuration window, click on
  General tab.
• Select Start-up selection as
  Normal startup, click on Apply
  and Ok.
• Follow onscreen instructions.

Hope it helps. Reply to the post with an updated status of this issue to assist you better.

 

Stuck in safe mode in windows 10

Safe mode is intended to help fix most, if not all problems within an operating system, it's not good if we got stuck on it. To correct this, we suggest that you follow the steps below to exit out of Safe mode:

• Open Run command by pressing Windows key + R
  keys on the keyboard and type msconfig in the command box and press
  Enter.
• Under General tab, put a check on Normal Startup option.
• Reboot the system and check if the changes are effective.

Let us know if you are able to exit out of Safe mode with these steps.