Recent content by skyzoomer

My Win8.1 screensaver has a problem. After the screensaver activates, I move the mouse and there is a blue screen for about 5-7 seconds. Then the normal windows screen displays. This can happen no matter what was previously displayed, desktop without any programs running, Thunderbird, MS Word...

Hi Jumanji (and Brink), My friend had a second drive letter locked to a fictitious drive. Her "layflat USB3 drive enclosure" was causing the problem. It was drive E, then became drive J, and now was drive K. Drive letters E and J were locked to fictitious, non-existent drives. I went over...

Hi Jumanji, Will give drivecleanup a try after trying Brink's suggestion of "This PC > Eject". Will ask my friend to do a full backup of the system drive first as a precaution. Will post results. Thanks much for helping out, Skyzoomer

I will try that the next time I have access to my friend's PC. I think it will probably say the same thing as Diskpart did though. ................................... Since option-3 said: ..... Virtual disk service error: ..... The specified drive letter is not free to be assigned. I think the...

Tried the options in the link: OPTION 1: Disk Management Does not show the drive letter E anywhere. OPTION 2: Regedit Does not show the drive letter E for any of the listed DosDevices. OPTION 3: Elevated command prompt Diskpart "list volume" does not show the letter E. The USB external...

Hi Brink, Helpful as always. I'll try the options in the link you provided the next time I have access to my friend's PC. Will post the results. Thanks, Skyzoomer

A friend is running Windows 8.1. Her external USB hard drive used to be assigned the letter "E". She says that for an unknown reason, that USB hard drive is now assigned the letter "J" but she would like to have it back to the letter "E". I opened Disk Management and tried to change the drive...

Found the answer. "Important: Before you proceed, make sure have some kind of portable media to create a password reset disk on. This means that you will need a flash drive or a floppy disk drive and blank floppy disk. You will not be able to create a Windows 7 password reset disk on a CD...

Have you changed your default power settings? Sounds like the default setting of putting your hard drive to sleep is causing the delay until it spins up again when you access it. Control Panel > Power Options > Change Settings. Inputting a zero value is equivalent to "Never". While setting...

I see the write-up on how to make a password reset disk on a USB flash memory stick. But is there a way to make a password reset disk on a CD? WHAT I DID: 1. Inserted a blank CD in the optical drive. 2. Opened control panel and clicked "User Accounts". But in the left panel there is no option...

Brink, As I said, you are a treasure! I did what you suggested above and it worked perfectly. After everything worked, in netplwiz I checked "Users must enter a user name and password to use this computer". Did a restart and Win8 asked for my password. Entered it and Windows 8.0 opened. So...

In option-3 step-7, I enter a new password twice and click OK. I get the message that says: "The following error occurred while attempting to set the password for user "myusername". The system is not authoritative for the specified account and therefore cannot complete the operation...

Brink, you are a treasure! I'll continue with option-3 this evening. Thanks, Skyzoomer

Am trying your suggestions listed in the "local account" link. -------------- In option-1 step-2 when I click "Change your password", a message says: "The password you signed in with is different from your password for your Microsoft account. Sign in again using your current password,k or...

Took a look. No DefaultPassword line in right pane. Thanks, Skyzoomer