Hopefully this is the right place for this post.

An elderly neighbor's family has an old (10+ years) HP laptop with Windows 10 to which they forgot the login pin.

I tried to use "Forgot My Pin"...

The shortcut was in the list and was enabled.


I added the script as a scheduled task and it's been working.

As long as this workaround functions, it's good enough for now. My investigative...

Thanks for the idea. Nothing has changed with an even simpler batch and Windows Ransomware is not currently enabled at all.

Hi all,

Quite a while ago I have created a startup script that does some basic file copying. It's nothing fancy: it runs after I log on to Windows and copies a few files. The batch file is in my...

Hi all,

For no apparent reason audio from my laptop's internal speakers appears and disappears. As I was troubleshooting I noticed random fluctuation in the audio levels in Windows Stereo Mixer....

Hoping to bump it and get some leads. Thank you

Hi all,

I have a Windows 10 laptop, a sound bar, and a Google Home device.

Depending on where I use my laptop I connect to the sound bar or the Google Home via Bluetooth. Then I disconnect...

First, the good news for me: the VM picked up internet access. No idea why as I'd made no further changes after posting and stopped looking at it. Restarted a couple of times for different reasons,...

Hi all,

I recently created a VM for some basic testing purposes and wanted it to use my laptop's internet access.

To that end I configured the VM with a "Default" Hyper-V network switch but it...

I did that, thank you.


In the scenario I was imagining my laptop does not start (for whatever reason) and built-in recovery options are not available but the drive itself is physically...

Because I'm emulating a situation where my system drive crashed.

From the tutorial:


My install media (on Earth, at least) is a USB drive. Any idea as to why the install happened from there...

Hi all,

Hate to bug but is there any feedback on my previous posts, please?
#95
Factory recovery - Create a Custom Recovery Partition

#96
Factory recovery - Create a Custom Recovery...

I don't see how I can edit my post above, so another post-install note.

Hyper-V does not retain the custom file location settings and returns to its defaults.

P.S. I can still edit this post,...

A recap and a couple of issues:
I experimented with following Kari's tutorial on a virtual machine and eventually installed Windows from an HDD partition to my laptop.


There were some issues.
...

Thank you for your suggestion, NavyLCDR. I think the issue remains: a new Windows installation will not recognize user profiles on D: partition because of different SID's.

Unless you or someone...

Dear NavyLCDR, I appreciate the thought. But if I do that, as with Kari's tutorial, the new installation still won't read my D drive user profiles properly. Different SID's.

It seems that,...

Actually, I have another question. Currently I split my laptop hard drive into something like 200GB C drive (Windows, programs, etc) and 400-500GB D drive for downloads and documents. There's more...

Yes, the editions are the same, I simply plan on prepping the image in advance as much as possible. Thank you for confirming my hope/assumption.

First of all, thanks to Kari! This is a really helpful tutorial and I am excited to try it out.

Have a question, though: if I prepare this on a virtual machine and finish all that I need short of...