Who is Felicia ? Are you using this networking forum to abuse people and make remarks about their families and to call names ?
There really is plenty to talk about concerning technical things...

Bro 67 Please stick to the technical stuff and don't moralize about my family because there are a lot of people that like to keep their business (such as money and health emails) private from their...

I said I would set up a spoof account on every machine if I 'went the credentials way'. That is where there is no homegroup and you simply enter credentials (username/password) when you try and...

Yes I agree with you on guest account and I would use a spoof user if I went the credential way.
If (I said IF) I have folder called 'former girlfriends', I don't want my wife to have the logon...

ok turned on the guest account on the target computer per your command line..... and the W10 machine called for credentials which I entered as <target computer > and then guest\<no password>
It was...

I will give that a shot... thankyou... I am off on the roof today to block off the woodpecker hole in the chimney before the 4 days of thunderstorms arrive. After that I will try anything that...

Hell's bells it's worse that I thought Jim... It sounds like it's the same as remote desktop ! There is no way the users are going to give me their user and password for their machines...... Would...

I have got W10 now including two W10 and 2 W7s on my home network... Different users and passwords on each one and all have a shared folder. Yes I set the network config for 'don't ask for...

Thanks Bill..got my old printer and scanner going 100% under 10 this morning so networking Monday ! To heck with the lovely weather, I am having fun now with the clean install..

Retired hurt. This is a new installation without much on it, so I chickened out and did a clean install from the windows media.. I installed excel/outlook and they validated auto and windows 10 too....

ok many thanks I will get on with it. I tried the DISM a couple if times yesterday... anyway, I will follow the instructions to the letter and see if that makes the difference..... As an aside, I...

I did the re-naming of the current avast folders which were all under winsxs .. ..it was job to take ownership/give permission from trusted installer to me and then change back after to NT...

ok there are a lot of avast files on this computer...manifest files in the window sxs directory
A lot in windows.old from the upgrade..
Attached a screen shot of SOME of them

ok so uninstalled avast again using revo uninstaller which uses avast uninstaller then goes much further..
Then I used the cleanavast.exe tool in safe mode
Then I used the CC cleaner to whack the...

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excellent stuff !

Hey thanks guys..I have been upstairs struggling with this thing so I didn't see your replies...registry cleaner sounds great.. Wifey is on 24 hour fasting for colonoscopy in the morning and is a bit...

ok and thank you in advance for your interest. I am sure that the sfc is failing only because of Avast, but I won't sleep until I get an 'all clear' from sfc..... Option 5 refers to outputting an...

Could not get the upgrade tool to work in 7 because of my Nvidia card which the tool refused. Spent hours taking to nvidia and installing new w10/7 drivers. Nothing....So I upgraded using the DVD...