Determining whether Win is running in safe mode or not

[SadBunny 130]

Hi people! I am writing a big script for our support department to be able to tech-support customers better, and offering a lot of basic task automation to make it all more efficient.

I am now trying to determine what basic dimensions to use for initial gui creation on a random customer's machine. This depends however on whether Windows is running in safe mode or not, since this obviously impacts the screen resolution.

So does anyone have any idea where to read out a Windows safe mode status?

(Edit: I can just try out screen resolution, but would like to be able to use the safe-mode-or-not info for more tasks...)

Thanks in advance.

Edited December 22, 2006 by SadBunny

[PaulIA 1]

Several ways to do this. Here's one:

$objWMIService = ObjGet("winmgmts:\\.\root\CIMV2")
$colItems = $objWMIService.ExecQuery("SELECT * FROM Win32_ComputerSystem")
For $objItem In $colItems
  ConsoleWrite("BootupState: " & $objItem.BootupState & @CR)
Next

[SadBunny 130]

I figured there were multiple ways, I just couldn't find any

But thanks to your super fast suggestion I know one way now; this is exactly what I needed.

Thanks a bunch!