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  1. With the Mac completely powered down, power it on and wait for the chime. 
  2. As soon as the startup chime sounds hold down the Shift key.
  3. Once the Apple logo appears on screen release the Shift key. 
  4. A Safe Mode stamp on the menu bar and login screen will help you know if you did it correctly.

Combo/OS Updates

What is a combo update?

http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/80657/what-is-a-combo-update-and-how-is-it-different-than-the-regular-update

For a quick way to update an older iteration of an OS to the latest (outside of major releases) it's a good idea to work with combo updates to apply major patches instead of just  grabbing them all through software update. 

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