Jim writes:

<<Pressing the F5 key instead of F8 will cause the PC to
boot into the DOS mode and display a C:> prompt with
no menu.

As William pointed out, there is only a 3-5 second
"window of opportunity" to do this.  You MUST pay attention,
or it will be gone before you have a chance to hit the key.>>

You don't always get to see the start message, no matter how hard you
look.  Either new Pentiums are too fast, or, more likely, startup logo
hides the message.

On those computers you have to keep TAPPING  F8---don't hold it down
continuously.

Windows98SE Help, if I'm not mistaken, says press CTRL  at startup to get
into Safe Mode(?????)   Ignore that-- it doesn't work.

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