| Mode | Feature |
| Safe | Not dangerous. Used only after the system has fallen down and could not get up. |
| Dangerous | More fun than safe mode, and makes a nice explosion when it crashes |
| Daredevil | Has a nifty logo, plus you can run a diagnostic which tells you how close you come to frying your chips |
| Apathetic | May eventually finish the startup process, or , eh, maybe not. But it won’t let you know for about 20 mins or so |
| A La | Makes everyone scream for it |
| Depeche | Hugely popular a few decades ago and is still used even today. Well -known for its startup jingle, Fly on the Windows Screens |
| Median | Starts up where we left off, half-way through the previous restart process |
| Conditional | It may start up very nicely and efficiently. Or, it may not. Depends upon a variety of things to which we are not enlightened. |
| Mixolydian | Only for the very well-read. It pretty much dominates everything when invoked. |
