
With Windows 8.1 however, you first have to access the Advanced Start screen then navigate a series of menus to get into Safe Mode. In the past, with Windows 7, it was much easier (and more direct) to get into safe mode. Safe Mode On Surface: Accessing Safe Mode This makes it very handy to facilitate troubleshooting or malware recovery if you’re having problems getting your Surface started normally. If you don’t know about Safe Mode, it’s a special mode of operation built into Windows that disables any drivers, devices, and applications that “could go wrong” and only loads a minimal set of what’s needed to run the computer. Read on, today I’ll tell you all you need to know about Safe Mode on your Surface device. With Windows 7, all you had to do is hit F8 at boot and it would give you the option to enter Safe Mode but as you probably found out, that doesn’t work on the Surface. Your computer should boot up as it is supposed to, without displaying the “Secure Boot Violation” error message.Have you tried to get your Surface into Safe Mode only to find out that it’s harder than you think?


When your computer boots from a Live CD or a installation disk, you may get a red square in the center of a black screen, with the following error message:
