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I upgraded a desktop from win7 pro to windows 10 a couple days ago. When I disconnect from my 8.1 pro laptop, RDP crashes. It still disconnects cleanly from my other win7 machines. But with the win10 machine, I click the close ('x') on the RDP toolbar (?) at the top. I get the normal "Your...

Naturally you'll need to be logged on with admin privileges. Bring up a command window with run as administrator. Check the state with: C:\Windows\system32>net user administrator User name Administrator Full Name Comment Built-in account for...

yeah, I kind of knew / assumed that but thought I'd ask. I think you're talking about SIDs? I guess HP sets an initial password and doesn't bother telling the customer what it is. I did go in and either removed or set a blank password. Not sure exactly which. Went through the password...

This is more for my information. I do not currently have a problem. Running 8.1 but would also like to know about 7 & 10. When i originally got my HP laptop, it blew its motherboard inside of 30 minutes. When I finally got it back a couple weeks later, they shipped it back with the wrong...

Seems like the renaming scheme works fine Here is what I did After thinking about this, I thought that the preferable organization would be to have all files in the root with the names changed. My thinking was that if I need to use a reset, I would copy the appropriate key and rename it back...

Shawn; I have never ended up using a reset so I'm not certain exactly how it works, but have a question about what you said in the tutorial: I want to put all resets from several win 7 & 8 machines on one flash. Mostly to keep everything in one place and to not be wasting memory having that...

Yes I think I had seen Brink's article. But I think that just gets rid of older versions, not all versions. I have a similar setup, but use a hybrid drive partitioned for C & I. I is where all my data is. Basically the same setup I've used for about 20 years now. I did create a library for...

thx That didn't seem to do anything. Perhaps I misunderstand. I turned off file history then went to the orginal file (not the saved file) and deleted it. Turned file history back on but they still showed in file history and i could restore them. then I tried While that did work, it...

Anyone know if there is a way to get rid of some files in file history? I unzipped some files and before I got rid of them file history ran and saved them. They are big enough that I'd put some work in to getting rid of them but not so big that I want to turn off file history, blow away the...

i did get my cell phone blue tooth to get added to the control panel version but the whole thing seems pretty lame. There is no indication as to whether something is connected or not. I don't see any difference between that and the two roku units that aren't even paired. I guess I'll have...

I don't understand the %windir%\explorer.exe shell:::{28803F59-3A75-4058-995F-4EE5503B023C} control panel version. That is what I first did. I would like that better than the metro one except it doesn't show my connected bluetooth devices. It does show some non-pared devices (a couple...

HippsieGypsie thanks for the reply I don't use it via the metro UI. In fact I almost never use the metro UI for anything. So my experience is via the old normal control panel interface. Didn't go to the store for mouse & keyboard center. in fact as far as I know, this machine doesn't know...

I had similar results with win7 but even it's a bit weird too. For this scenario I have the win8.1 laptop and two win7 desktops. all are pro versions and at least 8G memory (not that that should matter in this case). In all cases, a microsoft optical wheel mouse. On win7-1 it works as you...

I'm having a problem with getting the mouse wheel button to work correctly in 8.1 I've switched to left handed use to alleviate shoulder pain. Before this I had the mouse and keyboard center installed. I use a cheap USB keyboard and a microsoft USB optical wheel mouse. Configured for the...

Just got a new laptop (HP Envy) win8.1/64 and one thing annoys me about using it as a desktop. I can't turn it on without lifting the lid (to press the power button). I have an external mouse, keyboard, and monitor. On my old Dell, the docking station had a power button that I just pressed...