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Turn off your system. Remove the power cord and disconnect all the peripherals. Disconnect the charger if it is a laptop. Press and hold the power button for up to 30 seconds. Turn on your system.

So I'm trying to disable booting into the Windows Advanced Options Menu (aka safe mode, several other options) via F8 at startup, in XP Pro. The computers are set up with two users, one's the built-in ...