https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/14699-reset-password-user-account-windows-10-a.html#option2
Sounds like you may need to enable the Built-in admininistrator account, assuming a local user...

Hi, first please state exactly what you see on your screen when you try to boot.
- we don't know if your PC is showing anything on the screen, completing POST or if there's a CMOS battery problem,...

- that sounds quite a likely possibility.

As it was - do you have a System Restore point created before its installation you could use?

Just for comparison, noting the certificates will vary...

Certification is meant to make web access more secure.

Have you tried resetting the SSL cache as I suggested?

Hence, I tried to find in settings where this info can be entered and to activate "ask me to save username/password" for future websites. Searching google it said to enter it under profile in...

Please see SSL suggestion in my post, amended as you posted.

Do you perhaps have some rogue entries in your Hosts file?

If you create a new user account for test purposes (delete it afterwards), do you see the same problem?

You might try:
409366

Thanks- if that's how it is... maybe an explanatory note is needed- getting

doesn't seem so helpful... :-)

Check settings here:
409365

Hi Shawn, the first of the related tutorials has an odd URL... also 3rd down on the right. Thanks!

Edge password manager?
How to Find Saved Passwords on Microsoft Edge

Maybe that will help.

A better solution is to use a 3rd party password manager. Vaild across all/most browsers, and...

Hi, based on your screenshot:

Connection not private/secure

Begs the question as to why you only see this on 1 PC.

See that link for a few suggestions as to what to try.

Thank you for your reply.



Windowblinds applies a Windowblinds theme everywhere.
You can try it and see. Hundreds of themes to choose from, so you'd have to spend some time looking.
You need...

The view taken in threads on 3rd party driver updaters has consistently been 'DON'T USE THEM ROUTINELY'

This might be a contributory cause of your problems.

Presumably your laptop came with Win...

:thumbsup: commendable persistence.. and not easy as a consumer rather than a workshop expert with parts to hand.

I guess you might consider Stardock Windowblinds...

-- just to clarify- do you mean without internet access? or just that it's not possible by that means?

Sqrly- what happens if you try to access your MS account from Safe Mode?

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What...

My post #4 - your tutorial... teamwork.. kind of..!

I found I had the same symptom.

Clearly you should be able to log in to your MS account with no internet connection...

You say this is an old PC.

I found one thread with the same issue, and they solved it- but it seemed to...

:thumbsup: That's exactly how an in-place upgrade repair works.

1. The iso file is always a bit behind the latest build number.
2. Therefore using it takes your build number BACK.
3. Windows...

As per that thread, I experienced the same, plus another user- and the 'fix' I thought of thankfully works.

Turn On or Off Search online and include web results in Windows 10

I guess we'll get...

Megahertz- this was a clean install into an existing partition... so all previous partitions had been deleted as per post #1.

:thumbsup:
I'm guessing some recent change has rewritten that value.. just a guess.

For interest see:
How to disable the Bing button in the taskbar search on Windows 11

which is only...

No.

Here's what just helped me: and I'm fairly sure I did this some time back:

If you're happy not having internet search results mixed up in searches here:
Turn On or Off Search online and include...