In this article, I'm going to guide you when it comes to how to get to safe mode in Windows-XP - and, maybe, other editions, as well. I'm going to simply provide a little guide for how that is done. Hopefully you will get something of benefit out of it.
First of all, maybe you came here looking for something else than how to get to safe mode. If you did, however, you might still benefit from knowing the information I'm about to give. It could be beneficial for you, in the future, because if something happens with your computer, you might not be able to start-up your PC in "normal" mode, and it might, then, be NECESSARY - for the ability to use the PC, at all - that you know how to get into safe mode.
There's another thing - that might work, if you can't use windows's normal mode, and this is to load up the way it was configured the last time it worked.
How to get into safe mode is actually very easily answered. In Win-XP/2000, all you need to do, whilst the PC's booting is commencing, is go about holding down F8-key. Then you choose safe-mode.
If the PC continually showcases an unability to get into win's safe-mode, you might want to consider shutting of the power. Then you just start it again, and you get a kind of warning-screen. When this is up, the PC asks you what you want to do. Here, things are very simple - and all you need to do is use the arrow-keys to go down to the option "safe-mode". Then you will be in it. When you, then, want to get back to normal-mode, all that's required is that, you re-boot your PC.

All the mentioned things are exactly similar to Win-7-users. So there's no point in mentioning them again. For people who use Windows 98-ME, however, it's a little different.  But not very. All that differentiates how to get into safe mode, from the way it's done with xp/2000 is that you, in addition to pressing F8-key, also will be holding down right-ctrl, at the same time.

Hopefully you now feel sufficiently as to how to get to safe mode - whatever the windows-version your PC is running. Perhaps, it's more important, for your PC's wellbeing, that you remember just how important it is that you remember how to get to safe mode.