the “last-known good” boot profile to auto-revert from config changes which cause crashes on startup … or, probably more common, just using a VM with a restore-point, to test kernel-mode drivers.MS has never been good about cleaning old junk out of the garage.

I dunno, it’s just not clear to me that it’s useful for anyone… it’s something originally intended for testing/debugging device drivers … maybe it’s still useful for folks who do that? outside of BMS, I haven’t heard anyone ever mention it, for at least 15 years.It seems like there are many competing approaches implemented since… MSConfig.exe selective-startup … BCDEdit.exe boot profiles … incl. You can even tell it to boot to Safe Mode with internet access (or not, by default).Safe Mode would not go away without being replaced with something else of similar function, I’d bet dollars to donuts on that.

This is THE go-to in order to get Windows booted up after it’s had a real bad reef hit and the situation calls for an X-Acto knife instead of a JDAM (as in, the GBU being ‘reinstall windows’).All those utilities you mentioned like MSConfig, etc., cannot be accessed when Windows is FUBAR, and Safe-Mode is the way to un-FUBAR the OS so that you can access such utilities once more and regain control over the PC. If you don’t use it, or don’t know how it’s used these days or how much, I could understand how you’d question whether it’s useful to anyone.I can tell you without a doubt that is absolutely crucial as an element of any non-server Windows OS, from an IT standpoint. But, counter example, they did stop releasing “checked” builds sometime a few years ago… which was also something mainly targetted to kernel driver dev and testing.(So, short answer – I just didn’t know, and didn’t want to send someone on a goose chase looking for something that maybe didn’t exist anymore.

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