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This weeks adventures in Windows 10!
Hi All,
I had two interesting problem that I solved with Windows 10: 1) a customer called me because her machine was slow and would not start her programs consistently. You should have seen the list of garbage she got for error messages. Obviously, it was Fast Boot. Fixed that post haste. But she had a weird problem with it sometimes asking for her password. And she did not have one configured on her computer. She really did not too. She had the FREAKIN' Home edition, so I did not have access the Users and Groups dialog. Users from Control Panel had no provision to change the password. Users from the idiot tiles would not change her password without the old password. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon DefaultUserName was set; AutoAdminLogon was set; but DefaultPassword was not. Hmmmmm. Okay, booted into Fedroa. chntpw said she had no password I blanked in out any way. She booted back up and SURPRISE! up popped a jammed One Drive installation. I made quick work of that. Fix a lot of other small things and she is now a happy camper. 2) A customer had me remove a very old broken workgroup printer and install a replacement. Part of the job was removing the old printer and installing the new printer on five Windows Nein-1903, oops Windows Ten 1903 Pro, computers. The problem occured when I tried to remove the old computer. Two went perfectly. Three would let me remove the printer from Devices and printers, but the printer icon stayed there, even after a reboot. Hmmmmmm. Fussed with it a bit. This is what I came up with. 1) remove the printer from devices and printers. 2) remove the printer from the registry. Double check to make sure it was gone 3) go into the idiot tile setting for printers and remove it from there. (Did not remove, by the way.) 4) go back into the registry and find where the printer had been reinserted and remove it again. 5) go back into devices and printer and remove it again. This time it removed. Window Nein. What can I say. -T |
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This weeks adventures in Windows 10!
T wrote:
Hi All, I had two interesting problem that I solved with Windows 10: 1) a customer called me because her machine was slow and would not start her programs consistently. You should have seen the list of garbage she got for error messages. Obviously, it was Fast Boot. Fixed that post haste. But she had a weird problem with it sometimes asking for her password. And she did not have one configured on her computer. She really did not too. She had the FREAKIN' Home edition, so I did not have access the Users and Groups dialog. Users from Control Panel had no provision to change the password. Users from the idiot tiles would not change her password without the old password. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon DefaultUserName was set; AutoAdminLogon was set; but DefaultPassword was not. Hmmmmm. Okay, booted into Fedroa. chntpw said she had no password I blanked in out any way. She booted back up and SURPRISE! up popped a jammed One Drive installation. I made quick work of that. Fix a lot of other small things and she is now a happy camper. 2) A customer had me remove a very old broken workgroup printer and install a replacement. Part of the job was removing the old printer and installing the new printer on five Windows Nein-1903, oops Windows Ten 1903 Pro, computers. The problem occured when I tried to remove the old computer. Two went perfectly. Three would let me remove the printer from Devices and printers, but the printer icon stayed there, even after a reboot. Hmmmmmm. Fussed with it a bit. This is what I came up with. 1) remove the printer from devices and printers. 2) remove the printer from the registry. Double check to make sure it was gone 3) go into the idiot tile setting for printers and remove it from there. (Did not remove, by the way.) 4) go back into the registry and find where the printer had been reinserted and remove it again. 5) go back into devices and printer and remove it again. This time it removed. Window Nein. What can I say. -T Please, this is Usenet and a tech support newsgroup, not to where you publish your tweets, Facebook "what I did today" entries, or your diary. I don't see your posting will have historical significance to anyone else that may encounter similar problems. Seems more like another tirade to lambast Windows 10. |
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This weeks adventures in Windows 10!
On 11/8/19 9:08 PM, VanguardLH wrote:
T wrote: Hi All, I had two interesting problem that I solved with Windows 10: 1) a customer called me because her machine was slow and would not start her programs consistently. You should have seen the list of garbage she got for error messages. Obviously, it was Fast Boot. Fixed that post haste. But she had a weird problem with it sometimes asking for her password. And she did not have one configured on her computer. She really did not too. She had the FREAKIN' Home edition, so I did not have access the Users and Groups dialog. Users from Control Panel had no provision to change the password. Users from the idiot tiles would not change her password without the old password. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon DefaultUserName was set; AutoAdminLogon was set; but DefaultPassword was not. Hmmmmm. Okay, booted into Fedroa. chntpw said she had no password I blanked in out any way. She booted back up and SURPRISE! up popped a jammed One Drive installation. I made quick work of that. Fix a lot of other small things and she is now a happy camper. 2) A customer had me remove a very old broken workgroup printer and install a replacement. Part of the job was removing the old printer and installing the new printer on five Windows Nein-1903, oops Windows Ten 1903 Pro, computers. The problem occured when I tried to remove the old computer. Two went perfectly. Three would let me remove the printer from Devices and printers, but the printer icon stayed there, even after a reboot. Hmmmmmm. Fussed with it a bit. This is what I came up with. 1) remove the printer from devices and printers. 2) remove the printer from the registry. Double check to make sure it was gone 3) go into the idiot tile setting for printers and remove it from there. (Did not remove, by the way.) 4) go back into the registry and find where the printer had been reinserted and remove it again. 5) go back into devices and printer and remove it again. This time it removed. Window Nein. What can I say. -T Please, this is Usenet and a tech support newsgroup, not to where you publish your tweets, Facebook "what I did today" entries, or your diary. I don't see your posting will have historical significance to anyone else that may encounter similar problems. Seems more like another tirade to lambast Windows 10. Gee Wiz Oprah, I was giving tips and sharing information. Now it does amuse me that you find defining a problem and then how to fix it a "tirade to lambast Windows 10". If there is no problem, why am I fixing it? And no one is forcing you to read my stuff. If you decide to read my stuff anyway, you are going to have to put up with my technical opinion on a lot of matters, as I do yours. |
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Nobody knew this, but... (Was: This weeks adventures in Windows 10!)
In article , T wrote:
.... And no one is forcing you to read my stuff. If you decide to read my stuff anyway, you are going to have to put up with my technical opinion on a lot of matters, as I do yours. Actually, very few people know this, but I actually have Vanguard here in a closet. I've got him tied up in a chair with his eyes braced open (a la "Clockwork Orange"). facing a screen that endlessly scrolls "T" posts from various newsgroups. It really is a sight to see, and I've got it all streaming live on my YouTube channel. Check it out! -- Atheism: It's like being the only sober person in the car, and nobody will let you drive. |
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Nobody knew this, but... (Was: This weeks adventures in Windows10!)
On 11/8/19 10:59 PM, Kenny McCormack wrote:
In article , T wrote: ... And no one is forcing you to read my stuff. If you decide to read my stuff anyway, you are going to have to put up with my technical opinion on a lot of matters, as I do yours. Actually, very few people know this, but I actually have Vanguard here in a closet. I've got him tied up in a chair with his eyes braced open (a la "Clockwork Orange"). facing a screen that endlessly scrolls "T" posts from various newsgroups. It really is a sight to see, and I've got it all streaming live on my YouTube channel. Check it out! I LOVE IT! Alternate between my posts and making long distance call on his cell phone to Hong Kong and forcing to eat Kale. Let me know it you need any extra posts to torment him with. Include a suggested topic. :-) I take the kale thing back. That is too cruel. You know we really do love you Vanguard. What??? Okay, okay. We really do like you Vanguard. WHAT NOW ???? This is as far as I will budge, we like him a tiny bit. HAPPY NOW? Now I will go wash my mouth out with soap. Yuk! Tastes better than kale, but ... |
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This weeks adventures in Windows 10!
"VanguardLH" wrote:
T wrote: I had two interesting problem that I solved with Windows 10: Window Nein. What can I say. Please, this is Usenet and a tech support newsgroup, not to where you publish your tweets, Facebook "what I did today" entries, or your diary. I don't see your posting will have historical significance to anyone else that may encounter similar problems. Seems more like another tirade to lambast Windows 10. This group is not only for support, neither was his post a tirade. If you want off-topic, criticise the anon-remailer poster. quote For your newsgroups file: alt.comp.os.windows-10 Discussions about Windows 10 Charter: alt.comp.os.windows-10 is a newsgroup for discussing Windows 10, including but not limited to new features, bugs, backdoors, and the Microsoft monopoly in general. /quote. |
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