The amount of work to do a LOGGED BOOT and pour over the bootlog.txt file will not be done by most, so why not go back a day with SCANREG? Here's the article -> http://support.microsoft.com/?id=184023
Bob
Gateway 400 Select PC; Windows 98SE; 160MB RAM; IE 6.
Well, I'm here ----- but in Safe Mode. This is a first for me ------ I've been in safemode before to check things out, but not to actually use the computer. When booting up this morning the PC will only boot up in safe mode. I did f8 to get to the bootup menu and selected normal and it still booted up in safemode. I went into display properties and everything appears fine there -- no warning marks, red marks or yellow marks. I also tried changing mouses from an optical (USB) port to a serial port mouse. I also tried the bootup disk ----- and I didn't know what to do there.
What must I do to get into normal mode?

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