If you have used Windows 10 for a while, you might have noticed that the «old ways» of booting into Safe Mode no longer work. By that, we mean trying things like pressing the F8 or the Shift + F8 keys on your keyboard while booting. These methods stopped working because the start procedure became faster than ever before. However, that doesn’t mean that Windows 10 has no Safe Mode. It’s just that to get to it you have to follow other procedures. Let’s take a closer look and see a way you can get into Safe Mode in Windows 10:
Use the “Shift + Restart” combination
Open the Start menu and click or tap on the Power button.
Then, while keeping the Shift key pressed, click or tap on Restart.
Note that you can also use the Shift + Restart combination from the Sign In screen: click or tap Power, press and hold Shift and then click or tap Restart.
Then, Windows 10 reboots and asks you to select an option. Choose Troubleshoot.
Then, on the Troubleshoot screen, select Advanced options.
On the Advanced options screen, choose Startup Settings.
Windows 10 says that you can restart your device to change advanced boot options, including enabling Safe Mode. Press Restart.
After Windows 10 reboots, you can choose which boot options you want to be enabled. To get into Safe Mode, you have three different options.
To enable Safe Mode press the 4 or the F4 key on your keyboard, to enable “Safe Mode with Networking,” press 5 or F5, and to enable “Safe Mode with Command Prompt” press either 6 or F6.

Use the Settings app to access the Recovery options

To get into Safe Mode in Windows 10, you can also use the Recovery options available from the Settings app. Open Settings (Windows + I) and head to the Update & security section.
On the left side of the Settings window, press Recovery.
On the right side of the app, in the Advanced startup section, click or tap on the Restart now button.
After Windows 10 restarts, you’ll have to follow the same steps as those we’ve shown you in the second method from this guide. In short, you must go to “Troubleshoot -> Advanced options -> Startup Settings -> Restart”. Then, press 4 or F4 on your keyboard to start in Safe Mode, press 5 or F5 to boot into “Safe Mode with Networking,” or press 6 or F6 to go into “Safe Mode with Command Prompt.”