As per toolman59's suggestion I have done a full shutdown and restart. Starting it from Control Panel now works too. The ones pinned to Start/taskbar still launch invisibly. One unusual event at startup, the Intel Graphics and Media Control Panel opened and asked me to choose between Basic/Advanced/Wizard mode. It's never done that on previous restarts.
Still no icon on the taskbar while it's running, I guess it's one of those apps that doesn't want one.
I'm glad to hear it's working properly for your two now.
Yeah, the wizard doesn't have an icon on the taskbar by default. It would be nice if it did.
Do bear in mind that a Password reset disk does no more for you than writing the password down does. In either case you will end up with something you need to keep securely [a file or a piece of paper].
This is what my User Accounts page looks like. The Password Reset Link isn't there.
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Hello Nisko, :)
The link to create a password reset disk will not be available for a Microsoft account. It'll only be available for local accounts instead.
Your thread: How do I create a Password Reset key
Hello John, :)
Luckily, it's not hard to reset the password of a Microsoft account if needed. It would be best to keep your passwords written down and kept in a safe and secure location as a backup though.
Reset Password of User Account in Windows 10 Windows 10 User Accounts Tutorials
Ok Shawn short and sweet mate because I have the post drop out problem back I honestly didn’t know we had this tutorial and have been told about it so no problems.
I use Google Keep and although they say they encrypt stuff in there I use my own form of encryption in symbols for alphas and numerals.
Now it is te drop out stuff that has crept back and as this is a dual boot I might switch to the dedicated 10 drive even though I had that massive update last night.
Edge is doing my head in and emails well outlook keeps asking id ai want to stay on that page so slowly going south I reckon
Shawn,
I suggest you insert a warning in the tutorial intro and between Steps 7 & 8 that creating a new Password reset disk for the same local user account invalidates all previous Password reset disks for that local user account.
This is the warning dialog that appears:
I suggest you also insert the warning in the intro to Option One - Reset Password with Password Reset Disk - TenForumsTutorials and in its Step 7.
This is the fatal error report that appears if an invalid Password reset disk is used in an attempt to reset a local user account password:
This error report has always omitted any explanation [presumably to avoid assisting the malicious]. You'd see the same error report if you attempted to use Password reset disk for one local user account to reset the password of another local user account.
The invalidation of all earlier Password reset disks used to be stated quite explicitly in the relevant MS articles but no longer is -
Create a password reset disk for a local account in Windows - MSSupport
Reset your Windows local account password - MSSupport - You might notice that this article does not mention the Password reset disk which implies that they regard it as a legacy tool.
I just re-tested the invalidation of all earlier Password reset disks so I could be confident of my facts before posting this info. I was driven to do so because a member had just reported having made two password reset disks.
All the best,
Denis
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