Adding SafeBoot to the Boot Menu

You can add Safeboot as an option to the normal XP boot screen

1.Open a command prompt
2.Copy the current c:\boot.ini to another name (just in case)
3.With your favorite text editor, edit c:\boot.ini
4.Copy then edit the current boot line to another line. For example:
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect
might copy and then change to:
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional Safeboot" /fastdetect
5.Start MSCONFIG
6.Click on the BOOT.INI tab
7.Highlight the second line with the additional name of Safeboot
8.Check the /SAFEBOOT box with option you want
Minimal - Minimal set of drivers
Network - With Network Support
Dsrepair - Directory Services Repair
Minimal (Alternate Shell) - Standard Explorer Desktop
9.You will now have this option every time you start XP