HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\PasswordLess\Device\DevicePasswordLessBuildVersion from 2 to 0 and all was good again. Then run NETPLWIZ and set up autologon.

Thanks Denis for that info. I wasn't aware of that connection to the next month update. I'll wait until next month and see how it goes. The machine probably won't get any activity between now and...

Denis, KB5017380 was released on 20 September. Bob

Thanks for your reply Denis
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I have a Win 10 Pro 32 bit machine which is dedicated to run an old 16 bit program.

Windows Update installed 2022-09 Cumulative Update Preview for Windows 10 Version 21H2 for x86 based systems...

Not sure if this will help you but I installed a clean copy of Win 10 today and this is what I did. It worked OK.


I modded
...

That looks like
My problem has been solved !!

Thank you so much!!

These edge:// commands and settings can be saved as Favorites for greater convenience for future use.
I have the following saved in a Favorites folder.
edge://favorites/
edge://flags/...

Microsoft have changed access to Manage Favorites again. My browser is now at version 87.0.664.55 and is up to date.

Click on the Favorites star (the right hand one) on the top right. See the...

Yes, I have a local account and I had to fix the registry to enable an auto login. It's probably just another MS unsubtle push for us to use a Microshaft login.

Larry, it sounds like you are in the wrong place in the registry.
You are here
Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
and you need to be here...

I have a Brother Colour laser printer HL-3170CDW and it is online via its ethernet interface. Windows has set it up with two definitions. One is as a Web Services Device and the other is a Standard...

The Optimize panel on my machine shows 6 volumes which are spread across 4 physical SSDs. I only have SSDs. When I try to disable automatic optimize I can only disable any 5 out of the 6. If I...

I installed 10 Pro build 19041.264 with a local account yesterday. I couldn't use netplwiz to automate the login to Windows. The option just wasn't there. I modded...

Just installed KB4541335 on 3 machines with no apparent problems. Still got to do the 32 bit machine on the VM but it can wait.

Since we're discussing age, I'm 76 in a few weeks and still...

got this too

Sorry guys. I went AWOL on this thread because I ended up in hospital. I had Christmas and New Year in there for good measure and all in isolation in a negative air pressure room. Several months...

When I exit Magician I don't get what you are showing on your image. You also talk about an icon which I am unable to find.
Magician is not in Windows Setting > Apps & features > Startup however, it...

Not there. I'll fire up Sysinternals Autoruns but it's midnight here so it can wait.

I am running the latest version (V6.0.0) of Magician. It looks nothing like what your image shows. There are other ways to prevent it running. I will look into that.

Short scans are OK but full scans will take much longer. About 30 mins for the 500GB and about an hour for the 1000GB. The other drive is too old to support scanning.

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I did...

My Googling paid off. I found a tip that Sysinternals Process Explorer could display the owner of a Window and it was Samsung Magician that caused this message. SM is a bit ignorant popping up...

Yes, I run Samsung Magician. I have 3 Samsung SSDs.

I tried that and failed. TM shows 2 Apps (TM and Edge used for this post), 54 background processes and 95 Windows processes. Nothing shows that is obviously irregular. It would be nice if Windows...

I don't know. That's the problem.