You are a system administrator for Contoso, Ltd. You manage a remote site that consists of 50 users. Each user has a Windows 8.1 desktop computer. You grant local admin rights to a small group of power users that have proven a level of proficiency with Windows 8.1. This group helps with minor problems as needed.
One of the power users makes configuration changes on a desktop computer. Now the computer freezes for two minutes during the boot process.
You need to use msconfig to change the boot options to meet the following requirements:
Boot in safe mode
Boot the computer with a minimal set of drivers
Networking enabled
See the splash startup screen
Read drivers as they are loaded
Which three options should you select? (To answer, select the appropriate three options from the System Configuration Boot tab in the answer area.)
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Explanation/Reference:
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/using-system-configuration#1TC=windows-8
Using System Configuration (msconfig)
System Configuration (msconfig) is a tool that can help identify problems that might prevent Windows from starting correctly. Using System Configuration, you can start Windows with common services and startup apps turned off and then turn them back on, one at a time. If a problem doesn’t occur when an app or service is turned off, but does occur when the service is turned on, then that service could be the cause of the problem.
..Boot
Shows configuration options for the operating system and advanced debugging settings, including:
Safe boot: Minimal. On startup, opens the Windows graphical user interface (File Explorer) in safe mode running only critical system services. Networking is disabled.
Safe boot: Alternate shell. On startup, opens the Windows command prompt in safe mode running only critical system services. Networking and File Explorer are disabled.
Safe boot: Active Directory repair. On startup, opens File Explorer in safe mode running critical system services and Active Directory.
Safe boot: Network. On startup, opens File Explorer in safe mode running only critical system services. Networking is enabled.
No GUI boot. Doesn’t display the Windows Welcome screen when starting.
Boot log. Stores all information from the startup process in the file %SystemRoot%Ntbtlog.txt.
Base video. On startup, opens File Explorer in minimal VGA mode. This loads standard VGA drivers instead of video drivers specific to the video hardware on the PC.
OS boot information. Shows driver names as drivers are being loaded during the startup process.
