Add "Safe Mode" to Boot menu in XP

There are several reasons why you may wish to boot your system into Safe Mode:

• in order to install some drivers correctly and reliably
• to carry out housekeeping tasks such as disk defragmentation
• to perform any number of trouble-shooting tasks

The traditional way of booting to Safe Mode is to press the F8 key during the boot process, to display a list of available boot options.
You can add safe mode option directly to your boot menu by modifying boot.ini file...
boot.ini is usually located in root of C drive and is hidden file.... If you are not intrested in changing settings to display hidden files just right-click on "MY COMPUTER" and choose Properties.On the Advanced tab, click the Settings button, which bring up the Startup and Recovery window.Click the Edit button; the boot.ini file will be opened in Notepad. Before editing it is recommended to save that file with other name so that it may be easy to restore
Then... locate the [Operating Systems] section.
Copy the entry beneath this that relates to your default operating system, and paste it on the line below.
Add "/safeboot:minimal /sos /bootlog" to the end of the line you just copied. If you want networking support, then change "minimal" to "network".
Your Boot.ini file must be look soomething like this after editing..

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