Basically the Long Path names (>260 characters) is useless -

because Windows 10's (Microsoft's) File explorer has not been manifested to handle path lengths > 260

i.e., From Brink's note at...

I've been struggling with this off and on for about 6 months with no luck in getting weather to show up on the lock screen whether I'm logged in or not. 6 months ago it showed up - no problem. On my...

Ooops, there are 4 cases, not 3.
When I pin the items in the order I want in the Win10 "pinned" list they appear to stay pinned in that order (so far).
It's the Win 10 unpinned list and the office...

Yes. Microsoft appears to have locked in a push down list of last opened at top in all 3 cases.

Hi Shawn,

I've tried clearing out everything in the Win10 pinned list for Excel 2016, and in Excel's "Recent" list.

I then open then close one-at-a-time the workbooks I want in the Win 10...

Most of my left over references in the registry were "Most of the registry entries are for onedrive, edge, the microsoft store, and a bunch of other indecipherable references.".

However I think I...

will do, thanks again

Never mind on the question of "Attributes", I went ahead and added it in (after reading you tutorial more carefully) and it worked - but not as I had expected.

I was trying to get the Navigation...

That did it! Thanks.
'till now I didn't know there was a difference.

Any idea why Microsoft keeps claiming that if you are an "Administrator" you have full control of everything on the computer...

That's what I did

Tried doing this with the latest updates to 1703 build 15063.502.
Changing the owner to Administrator was easily done but changing permissions of Administrator from read only to full couldn't be...

Hi Denis,

Glad to hear you didn't mess up your Win 10 installation.

My old Users\<name>\ was "Mercury", I changed it to "JMW".
I searched the registry for "Mercury"

There were:
323...

I had already done that, it's easy and Microsoft even provides an easy way to change the name of the computer, they also provide an easy way to change the user name - but unfortunately there is no...

UhOh,

After successfully changing the user folder name and the account users name (to the same "new" Id) I searched the registry for the "old" user's folder ID. There was A LOT of references to...

...to add more info in case I'm not a unique case:

I tried restarting, shuting down and in each case only logging in with the newly created "ADMIN" account (not a very imaginative name). In each...

Hi Brink,

Yep, I solved it by booting into Safe mode and renaming it with win explorer.
BTW, I've been a fan and Big user of your seven and ten forums for years - best on the net!

You must...

I went through the procedure twice, both times when attempting to rename the user folder using windows explorer the message came back "can't change the name, the folder/file is open in a different...