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Old November 28th 17, 02:47 AM posted to alt.windows7.general
Paul[_32_]
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Default Dell computer with no input

Mathedman wrote:
Dell computer with no input capability!
My wife just bought a New Dell "all in one" computer.
But the thing is bizarre. It has no DVD drive,
nor place to install one. It has one USB port ---
but the computer does not recognize anything plugged
into the USB slot !
Further more, it has Windows 10 installed which
doesn't have "Control Panel (at least none I could find)
So how do we do anything? We can access internet sites
It doesn't even have Internet Explorer!
So what to do with the thing?


It does sound like a Windows10-S platform, a bit.

Windows10-S has only Metro Apps on it. So Internet Explorer
is not one of those.

If you right-click the Start Orb, and use the Run box,
you can type

iexplore.exe

and start some copy of Internet Explorer if it exists.
That would work on Win10 Home or Win10 Pro, which are
the conventional dual-purpose consumer OSes with legacy
support.

Internet Explorer, on a 64 bit OS platform, is stored
in two folders. There is a 32-bit version in Program Files (x86)
and a 64-bit version in "Program Files". When you type
iexplore.exe, the execution path is going to pick the
one it finds first in the path. But you can start
either one by locating the two executables, if you
wanted to compare the 32-bit IE11 to the 64-bit IE11
on a 64-bit OS. You could double-click one of those,
in its respective Program Files folder.

*******

Windows10-S can be "upgraded" to Windows 10 Pro, for $50.
And for a limited time (likely for the remainder of this year),
that upgrade is free. Seeing as there isn't a lot of
Windows10-S out there (I searched about a month ago),
I really wasn't expecting to run into that yet.

In the Run Box, type "winver" to collect information about the install.

Using "slmgr /dlv" will give details of the activation (irrelevant
for this discussion, but part of evidence collection otherwise).

And the System Control Panel will also have some strings
containing evidence of what you've got.

To date, only Microsoft Surface products list Windows10-S
as their OS, and I haven't seen evidence that companies
like Dell/HP/Lenovo are shipping that.

Windows10-S only runs Windows Store Apps, meaning the
MSEdge browser is your browser for the moment. If that's
the case, you can fix that by doing the free Pro upgrade,
before it's too late!

Why doesn't your USB port work ? Haven't a clue. Start
by cracking the owners manual.

If you'd mentioned the model number of the machine,
I would have investigated...

You probably don't have a Type-C USB connector, because
otherwise you would have mentioned the weird thing that
doesn't look like a USB port :-) You can adapt Type-C
to other connector types, in order to plug in your
existing junk room full of stuff.

Paul
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