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New laptop w/windows 8
I just bought a new laptop with W 8 and have a few questions. How do I get
rid of having to constantly put in a password to use it? It's frigging annoying as hell. The other question is how do I hack in WindowsMail like I did in W 7? WindowsMail works great in W 7 so I moved the folder to W 8 but it wont open. How can I get it to open? Please don't suggest other mail programs as I've tried most of the years and can't stand them. Thanks. |
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R.H. Breener wrote on 2/21/2015 11:05 PM:
I just bought a new laptop with W 8 and have a few questions. How do I get rid of having to constantly put in a password to use it? It's frigging annoying as hell. The other question is how do I hack in WindowsMail like I did in W 7? WindowsMail works great in W 7 so I moved the folder to W 8 but it wont open. How can I get it to open? Please don't suggest other mail programs as I've tried most of the years and can't stand them. Thanks. run netplwiz Command prompt or run command etc. Whatever way you can. There is a check box on the first screen. Toggle it. Click okay. It will ask for the password. enter it twice. |
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New laptop w/windows 8
"Big_Al" wrote in message ... R.H. Breener wrote on 2/21/2015 11:05 PM: I just bought a new laptop with W 8 and have a few questions. How do I get rid of having to constantly put in a password to use it? It's frigging annoying as hell. The other question is how do I hack in WindowsMail like I did in W 7? WindowsMail works great in W 7 so I moved the folder to W 8 but it wont open. How can I get it to open? Please don't suggest other mail programs as I've tried most of the years and can't stand them. Thanks. run netplwiz Command prompt or run command etc. Whatever way you can. There is a check box on the first screen. Toggle it. Click okay. It will ask for the password. enter it twice. What does Toggle it mean? |
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On 22/02/2015 04:25, R.H. Breener wrote:
"Big_Al" wrote in message ... R.H. Breener wrote on 2/21/2015 11:05 PM: I just bought a new laptop with W 8 and have a few questions. How do I get rid of having to constantly put in a password to use it? It's frigging annoying as hell. The other question is how do I hack in WindowsMail like I did in W 7? WindowsMail works great in W 7 so I moved the folder to W 8 but it wont open. How can I get it to open? Please don't suggest other mail programs as I've tried most of the years and can't stand them. Thanks. run netplwiz Command prompt or run command etc. Whatever way you can. There is a check box on the first screen. Toggle it. Click okay. It will ask for the password. enter it twice. What does Toggle it mean? It's means put the laptop back in the box and take it back where you bought it from. Tell them you are too stupid to own a computer. |
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New laptop w/windows 8
R.H. Breener wrote on 2/21/2015 11:25 PM:
"Big_Al" wrote in message ... R.H. Breener wrote on 2/21/2015 11:05 PM: I just bought a new laptop with W 8 and have a few questions. How do I get rid of having to constantly put in a password to use it? It's frigging annoying as hell. The other question is how do I hack in WindowsMail like I did in W 7? WindowsMail works great in W 7 so I moved the folder to W 8 but it wont open. How can I get it to open? Please don't suggest other mail programs as I've tried most of the years and can't stand them. Thanks. run netplwiz Command prompt or run command etc. Whatever way you can. There is a check box on the first screen. Toggle it. Click okay. It will ask for the password. enter it twice. What does Toggle it mean? Toggle, in the case of a check box or radio box, change the state it was in. If it's on turn it off, if it's off turn it on. To switch between one of two states. In your case the auto login is not turned on. I don't care or know if that is with or without the check box checked. In your case the feature is off, so changing the state of that checkbox will change the state of your autologin. If it's currently off, it will turn it on. SO TOGGLE IT to the other state it's currently in. |
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New laptop w/windows 8
On Mon, 23 Feb 2015 12:05:59 -0500, Big_Al wrote:
What does Toggle it mean? Toggle, in the case of a check box or radio box, change the state it was in. If it's on turn it off, if it's off turn it on. To switch between one of two states. In your case the auto login is not turned on. I don't care or know if that is with or without the check box checked. In your case the feature is off, so changing the state of that checkbox will change the state of your autologin. If it's currently off, it will turn it on. SO TOGGLE IT to the other state it's currently in. I had an adventure with that word when the DirecTV installer came. He told me the channel and volume were toggles, so I tried to press them in so as to change their state (which didn't make sense, since both deal with a series of values!). It turned out he meant that you rock them up or down, not push them in. He thought I was pretty dumb even after I told him what toggle means to me (same as you wrote above). BTW, both switches are quite small and don't have long bat handles, so it's not obvious at a glance that they rock rather than press in. Not to mention that what I did at first actually had an effect, but it wasn't consistent - i.e., sometimes volume up, sometimes volume down, and of course the same for the channel button. -- Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch) |
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Gene E. Bloch wrote on 2/23/2015 5:37 PM:
I had an adventure with that word when the DirecTV installer came. He told me the channel and volume were toggles, so I tried to press them in so as to change their state (which didn't make sense, since both deal with a series of values!). And he was wrong. Those are called, believe it or not, rocker switches!!! ;-) |
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New laptop w/windows 8
On Mon, 23 Feb 2015 14:37:17 -0800, "Gene E. Bloch"
wrote: On Mon, 23 Feb 2015 12:05:59 -0500, Big_Al wrote: What does Toggle it mean? Toggle, in the case of a check box or radio box, change the state it was in. If it's on turn it off, if it's off turn it on. To switch between one of two states. In your case the auto login is not turned on. I don't care or know if that is with or without the check box checked. In your case the feature is off, so changing the state of that checkbox will change the state of your autologin. If it's currently off, it will turn it on. SO TOGGLE IT to the other state it's currently in. I had an adventure with that word when the DirecTV installer came. He told me the channel and volume were toggles, so I tried to press them in so as to change their state (which didn't make sense, since both deal with a series of values!). It turned out he meant that you rock them up or down, not push them in. He thought I was pretty dumb even after I told him what toggle means to me (same as you wrote above). BTW, both switches are quite small and don't have long bat handles, so it's not obvious at a glance that they rock rather than press in. Not to mention that what I did at first actually had an effect, but it wasn't consistent - i.e., sometimes volume up, sometimes volume down, and of course the same for the channel button. This reminds me of the old days when the Rural Electrification Administration installed electric power lines in the area where our ranch was located. Our house had been set up with a wind charger and a battery system. The ceiling lights had pull chains on them, but when our house was re-wired for 110 volt REA power they put "Toggle Switches" on the walls by the doors and got rid of all those pull chain light fixtures. Long time ago!!! Gordon |
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New laptop w/windows 8 what a *&^%$# nightmare.
"Big_Al" wrote in message ... R.H. Breener wrote on 2/21/2015 11:25 PM: "Big_Al" wrote in message ... R.H. Breener wrote on 2/21/2015 11:05 PM: I just bought a new laptop with W 8 and have a few questions. How do I get rid of having to constantly put in a password to use it? It's frigging annoying as hell. The other question is how do I hack in WindowsMail like I did in W 7? WindowsMail works great in W 7 so I moved the folder to W 8 but it wont open. How can I get it to open? Please don't suggest other mail programs as I've tried most of the years and can't stand them. Thanks. run netplwiz Command prompt or run command etc. Whatever way you can. There is a check box on the first screen. Toggle it. Click okay. It will ask for the password. enter it twice. What does Toggle it mean? Toggle, in the case of a check box or radio box, change the state it was in. If it's on turn it off, if it's off turn it on. To switch between one of two states. In your case the auto login is not turned on. I don't care or know if that is with or without the check box checked. In your case the feature is off, so changing the state of that checkbox will change the state of your autologin. If it's currently off, it will turn it on. SO TOGGLE IT to the other state it's currently in. It didn't work anyway. I unchecked the box but still have to use my password. I wish I could have found a LP with W7 but no one was selling them. This W8 is the pits. I can't use the Command Prompt as Administrator because that choice isn't on the dropdown. I can't open and Administrator account according to www.eightforums unless I can get use the prompt under Administrator. So can someone who knows please tell me how to add Administrator to the dropdown menu in Command Prompt? As for going through the registry per that site.... it says go to regedit and click File/Load Hive which isn't an option since Hive is grayed out. So that is no option either. So how then do I open an Administrators account? |
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New laptop w/windows 8 what a *&^%$# nightmare.
On Tue, 24 Feb 2015 06:23:04 -0500, R.H. Breener wrote:
So can someone who knows please tell me how to add Administrator to the dropdown menu in Command Prompt? Perhaps this helps: http://www.howtogeek.com/194041/how-...n-windows-8.1/ |
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New laptop w/windows 8 what a *&^%$# nightmare.
Per R.H. Breener:
It didn't work anyway. I unchecked the box but still have to use my password. I wish I could have found a LP with W7 but no one was selling them. This W8 is the pits. I don't know enough to comment on the PW situation, but would add one more caveat: If your login is associated with a Microsoft account, get rid of that association. When I first booted up mine, I stepped through all the prompts and one of them led me into setting up my own Microsoft account and the laptop wound up being linked to that account. Bad Idea.... later on, for whatever reason, somebody can decide that something is not right with that account and you will get the dreaded "Cannot log in..." (or somesuch) At that point you may be SOL - either if you cannot recall the PW last used to log in to the laptop when it was offline or for some other reason I have no clue about. Google "windows 8.1 how to remove Microsoft account" for instructions. Maybe somebody who knows can comment on the benefit(s) of being connected to a Microsoft account.... all I can come up with are costs.... -- Pete Cresswell |
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New laptop w/windows 8
"Big_Al" wrote in message ... R.H. Breener wrote on 2/21/2015 11:05 PM: I just bought a new laptop with W 8 and have a few questions. How do I get rid of having to constantly put in a password to use it? It's frigging annoying as hell. The other question is how do I hack in WindowsMail like I did in W 7? WindowsMail works great in W 7 so I moved the folder to W 8 but it wont open. How can I get it to open? Please don't suggest other mail programs as I've tried most of the years and can't stand them. Thanks. run netplwiz Command prompt or run command etc. Whatever way you can. There is a check box on the first screen. Toggle it. Click okay. It will ask for the password. enter it twice. OK got it. Wasn't familiar with the toggle word. Thanks. |
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New laptop w/windows 8
R.H. Breener wrote:
I just bought a new laptop with W 8 and have a few questions. How do I get rid of having to constantly put in a password to use it? It's frigging annoying as hell. The other question is how do I hack in WindowsMail like I did in W 7? WindowsMail works great in W 7 so I moved the folder to W 8 but it wont open. How can I get it to open? Please don't suggest other mail programs as I've tried most of the years and can't stand them. Thanks. You can use your search engine, like this "windows mail" site:sevenforums.com "windows mail" site:eightforums.com and get a solution for each OS. The second article mentions a DLL that has to be moved and registered so the OS knows it is there. http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials...dows-mail.html http://www.eightforums.com/browsers-...ndows-8-a.html On the first article, there is a download, but you can just as easily open the ZIP with 7-ZIP, take note of what files they're using, and copy over your Vista ones. In the first article, there is a .reg file. It may look like loads of "hex", but in fact those are text strings. The text strings use wide 16 bit characters. For English participants, the second byte of a pair is usually 0x00. The net result is, it looks like hex, when on a previous OS without wide character support, you'd be looking at an easy to read %path% type thing. So don't be freaked out by the hex look of the .reg file. It can be translated to something readable, with a moderate amount of effort. The contents aren't totally mysterious. (There are some things that are pure hex in Windows, but these aren't examples of that.) It's the inability of Microsoft to create a decent representation, that makes us go through this hell (of translation). At some point in the past, one of these USENET groups has had a posting on installing WM, but since there is no archive on Google, it's pretty hard to search what has already been posted here, when you need an answer. New groups added to alt.*, are not automatically added at Google headquarters. Have fun, Paul |
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New laptop w/windows 8
"Paul" wrote in message ... R.H. Breener wrote: I just bought a new laptop with W 8 and have a few questions. How do I get rid of having to constantly put in a password to use it? It's frigging annoying as hell. The other question is how do I hack in WindowsMail like I did in W 7? WindowsMail works great in W 7 so I moved the folder to W 8 but it wont open. How can I get it to open? Please don't suggest other mail programs as I've tried most of the years and can't stand them. Thanks. You can use your search engine, like this "windows mail" site:sevenforums.com "windows mail" site:eightforums.com and get a solution for each OS. The second article mentions a DLL that has to be moved and registered so the OS knows it is there. http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials...dows-mail.html http://www.eightforums.com/browsers-...ndows-8-a.html On the first article, there is a download, but you can just as easily open the ZIP with 7-ZIP, take note of what files they're using, and copy over your Vista ones. In the first article, there is a .reg file. It may look like loads of "hex", but in fact those are text strings. The text strings use wide 16 bit characters. For English participants, the second byte of a pair is usually 0x00. The net result is, it looks like hex, when on a previous OS without wide character support, you'd be looking at an easy to read %path% type thing. So don't be freaked out by the hex look of the .reg file. It can be translated to something readable, with a moderate amount of effort. The contents aren't totally mysterious. (There are some things that are pure hex in Windows, but these aren't examples of that.) It's the inability of Microsoft to create a decent representation, that makes us go through this hell (of translation). At some point in the past, one of these USENET groups has had a posting on installing WM, but since there is no archive on Google, it's pretty hard to search what has already been posted here, when you need an answer. New groups added to alt.*, are not automatically added at Google headquarters. Have fun, Paul Thanks Paul. There seems to be several ways to do it and I'll look into all. The biggest problem is deleting the WindowsMail from W 8 that it came with. It wont let me delete the copy it came with. Is there a way to get past that Trusted Installer BS? I have Unlocker but it wont work on W 8 64 bit. Any suggestions to get around this problem? |
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R.H. Breener wrote:
"Paul" wrote in message ... R.H. Breener wrote: I just bought a new laptop with W 8 and have a few questions. How do I get rid of having to constantly put in a password to use it? It's frigging annoying as hell. The other question is how do I hack in WindowsMail like I did in W 7? WindowsMail works great in W 7 so I moved the folder to W 8 but it wont open. How can I get it to open? Please don't suggest other mail programs as I've tried most of the years and can't stand them. Thanks. You can use your search engine, like this "windows mail" site:sevenforums.com "windows mail" site:eightforums.com and get a solution for each OS. The second article mentions a DLL that has to be moved and registered so the OS knows it is there. http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials...dows-mail.html http://www.eightforums.com/browsers-...ndows-8-a.html On the first article, there is a download, but you can just as easily open the ZIP with 7-ZIP, take note of what files they're using, and copy over your Vista ones. In the first article, there is a .reg file. It may look like loads of "hex", but in fact those are text strings. The text strings use wide 16 bit characters. For English participants, the second byte of a pair is usually 0x00. The net result is, it looks like hex, when on a previous OS without wide character support, you'd be looking at an easy to read %path% type thing. So don't be freaked out by the hex look of the .reg file. It can be translated to something readable, with a moderate amount of effort. The contents aren't totally mysterious. (There are some things that are pure hex in Windows, but these aren't examples of that.) It's the inability of Microsoft to create a decent representation, that makes us go through this hell (of translation). At some point in the past, one of these USENET groups has had a posting on installing WM, but since there is no archive on Google, it's pretty hard to search what has already been posted here, when you need an answer. New groups added to alt.*, are not automatically added at Google headquarters. Have fun, Paul Thanks Paul. There seems to be several ways to do it and I'll look into all. The biggest problem is deleting the WindowsMail from W 8 that it came with. It wont let me delete the copy it came with. Is there a way to get past that Trusted Installer BS? I have Unlocker but it wont work on W 8 64 bit. Any suggestions to get around this problem? I don't understand. I thought WLM was a purely independent program (registered in Programs and Features) since if Microsoft bundles it, they tend to get in trouble in Europe. It could be, on the laptop, that the manufacturer put that there. But even so, it should have a remover. Note that some software in Windows, is "removed" using the "Features" controls. That's a subsection of "Programs and Features" control panel. For example, Hyper-V as a Win8 feature hides in there. Only, they don't tell you when you don't have the correct hardware support for that one. Mine failed silently when I tested it a year ago. I would not expect WLM to be in Features, so don't get your hopes up. When a program is not properly registered with Programs and Features, sometimes if you look in the Program Files (x86) or equivalent folder, you'll see "uninst.exe", that sort of thing. That is an example of a program linked to Programs and Features, for removal purposes. But you can try clicking that manually, and see what happens. I don't use WLM here, so have *no* example installs :-) I can't help you. Really. ******* As a "suite" of tools, it might be hiding under another name. When you use this one in Programs and Features, it then has a sub-menu for removals. "Programs and features" then "Windows Live Essentials 2011" --- WLM hides in here http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/w...mail-uninstall Paul |
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