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In front of me is a Microsoft Surface Duo and today I will show you how to put the device
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into safe mode. So to get started, number one, I'm going to change the brightness just so it stops flickering
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There we go. So number one, you want to hold the power key
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And when you see the boot options right here, make sure you hold the power off
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When you hold it, it will then change into this message right here, reboot to safe mode
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Do you want to reboot into safe mode? This will disable all third-party applications you have installed
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They will be restored when you reboot again. Now let's confirm it
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And while this is rebooting, I'm going to quickly just describe what this mode is for
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So booting your device into safe mode is designed for troubleshooting. So if you have some kind of problem with your device, if the battery is draining too quick
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or something is just malfunctioning with it, you can boot it into safe mode and that
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will basically prevent any kind of application that you have installed from interfering with
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the device. So if you have maybe a suspicion that some kind of application is causing you problems
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in safe mode that application will have basically no business running. And well, to be fair, it won't even be able to start
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All the applications that come pre-installed with the device will function correctly without any problem, minus the widgets
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As you can see, widgets are disabled. Let's see if we have any kind of application that is turned off
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Nope. It looks like all the applications here are accessible
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Now the way you can figure it out which application you can use and can't is apps that are disabled
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in safe mode will be basically monochrome grayed out. And if you try to open them up, it will just give you a pop-up somewhere right here saying
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that the application in safe mode cannot start or something along those lines
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So anyway, once you're done with the safe mode, all you need to do to leave it is hold the power key once more and this time around tap on restart
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And once the device reboots, it will be back in normal mode. And now that the device is back on, you can see that it is in normal mode
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So anyway, if you found this video helpful, don't forget to hit like, subscribe, and thanks
