You guys talkin bout me!

Ztruker: You are not paying attention to the thread I started. I do not and have never "booted up' WinRE. There's no reason to do so unless you cannot boot up into...

For Bree:
>There is no other 'special' password just for WinRE, the only passwords it uses are those of the accounts on your system.

I have only one account, it is a local account, and it...

Bree, we've strayed away from my original posting. We should be talking about the password that Windows Recovery Environment requires. My Windows 10 password is not in question. I do not have one and...

xaccell, that sounds like the worst possible thing you could do. What do you mean "for the account"? What account? If you had only read my original posting you would see that I want no passwords for...

One last shot at it. spunk.funk, where are you. You have satisfactorily answered my questions in the past. Here it is as brief as I can make it:

When executed from a HDD, Windows Recovery...

Thanks Bree. Your second image, "Start-up Repair" is exactly what I'm talking about. However, I will not rebuild my system. Surely there is an easier solution.

"When you have a user account password then WinRE booted from HDD will prompt you for one...". Exactly. What is that password. Hitting [Enter] is gives me "incorrect password".

Not having a...

Yes it is strange. That's why I posted. Also said in my initial posting that I did indeed use Win10 bootable media which did not need a password to recover.

I still want to know why WinRE needs a...

Windows Version 1903 Build 18362.175; Dell 8930

Please note I have searched through past postings on Windows passwords but none answer my problem.

A month ago my Win10 Dell computer wouldn't...

Just to let you know about a quirk in FF 60 (I'm not updating it), when I want a default htm or html reader to be some other application than FF such as Internet Explorer or Universal Viewer,...

That makes absolutely no sense, Bree. Restoring to a point before a Windows 10 feature update is in no way analogous to going back to a previous version of Windows such as 7 from 10. That requires...

After Microsoft's latest forced update, 1903, I discovered that all my previous system restore files had been wiped out. Is there any way of hiding, or protecting, or backing up system restore files?

On July 12th 2019 Microsoft sneaked an update on my PC even though I had paused updates for 7 days. The update, KB4509096, a so-called "security update", broke video rendering on my photo/video...

Hello zbook - You have given me a lot to do. Just to let you know I'm working on it. Here's the command line results, everything looks good. Could you tell me what the wmic command does:
...

Hello zbook - I don't know if my other thank you message made it. What great advice, esp installing updates one by one. Thank you so much zbook. (Btw, my old HP computer using Win Vista since 2008...

Last night as I shutdown my computer the blue updates screen appeared, the one that says "Installing updates, 10%, 20%, ...Do not shut off your computer". That was strange since I always thought I...

ATTENTION: I woke up in the middle of the night last night and was mulling over my default browser problem when it occurred to me that on Friday night I ran Auslogics defrag program's "optimize SSD"....

Sorry CmmTch. I haven't been clear. I have a new Dell 8930 desktop computer, installed last March. That is the computer I am having trouble with and the one that is completely up-to-date with Windows...

Hello CmmTch - I have Dell xps-13 Win10 laptop that I just checked and default browser on it is still Firefox. Here's the thing. It is still on version 1803 of Windows. I know one can uninstall...

Edwin - I get it. I tried it but it didn't work. The protocol for opening a web browser is HTTP or HTTPS. Once again, only MS Edge is offered as an app to open those protocols on my computer. If only...

Hello thomaseg1 - I should have emphasized that it is not only Firefox but any other browser. No other browser is listed such as Chrome or Palemoon or IE11. So if a Microsoft update somehow put a...

I'm not sure what this will tell you since this problem has nothing to do with IP or Internet. The problem is a Win10 update that locked in MS Edge.

Windows IP Configuration

Host Name . . ....

The morning of May 25th 2019 Pacific Time Microsoft locked in MS Edge as a default browser in Windows 10 on my computer.

My system shows 2019-05 Cumulative Update for Windows 10 version 1809 for...

Thanks Ken. I'll try to get through the Dell brick wall to see if they can help. Btw, I know what KISS means.

Thanks Ken. When I went into the BIOS those two boxes WERE checked, I assume by default. That hasn't changed the behavior of those keys.