Quite a bit later: I took on board the mentor idea and asked his dad for his opinion. He said the LAPTOP his son is using was slow but he could not afford a new one. I tentatively proffered the...
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Quite a bit later: I took on board the mentor idea and asked his dad for his opinion. He said the LAPTOP his son is using was slow but he could not afford a new one. I tentatively proffered the...
Sorry for delay in replying.
Thanks to all who replied. The problem seems to have disappeared of its own accord. Maybe Amazon found it was not paying off ! Or restarting did it. I am marking...
Windows 10 Home x64 Version 21H2 Build 19044.1586
I have a weird problem with Alexa. When I try to access Amazon.co.uk the Alexa page invades the screen and I cannot get rid of it. I googled...
Thankyou very much all of you. A lot of food for thought hear. A good idea to consult his father ! I can offer to pay for anything he thinks might encourage him. But I will try the various things...
Windows 10 Home x64 Version 21H2 Build 19044.1586
This may not be the right forum for this but can anyone recommend a simple way of
getting a 12 yr old boy interested in LEARNING about...
Sorry for unavoidable delay in closing this thread.
You were right Denis. I was able to access the problem User Account through File Explorer accessed through old Local Account with admin...
Apologies for delay in acknowledging your replies. Drowning in minor domestic equipment breakdowns !
Thank you all for your replies. I will try Denis` solution when I have time but I am slow on...
Windows 10 Home x64 Version 21H2 Build 19044.1586]
I have a security question which asks for names of eldest cousin.
I have rather a lot of cousins so I assumed I had made a mistake. However,...
Thanks again to botb of you. I wlll have another think and come back before7 I do anything about this.
Many thanks for your patience ! I still have no luck with shell:UsersFilesFolder but I followed the tutorial and succeeded in using shell:Personal. I got to the right location for restoring default...
Still no joy. Followed your directions. Pasted shell:UsersFilesFolders into File Explorer Address Bar. Same error message.
Windows 10 cannot find this folder
I am trying to follow Option 1 but when I type shell:UsersFilesFolders or shell:Personal into File Explorer address bar I get message "cannot find shell:UsersFiles Folders" and the same result with...
I know this is an old thread but the old problem returned recently. I found in windowsphone.com credit to Life Hacker
that Windows 10 more recently (sometimes ?) defaults to opening Windows...
I need to reduce an old User Account with admin privileges to a Standard User because it is corrupt and upgrade a newly created User Account to Admin status. I am not certain of the correct order in...
I can see this is a very old thread but I cannot download desktopOK because software site keeps deviating download to other sites.
Frequently to Microsoft Driver Support. I don`t seem to be able...
Many thanks. That is very useful.
I have what I think is a similar problem I have been having a lot of trouble with a single Local Admin User Account and have created an additional standard user Local Account. I have been advised...
Thanks very much. Very reasuring advice. Will carry on with Macrium, then change new account to admin and leave the old one alone.
Thanks Denis.
I have created a new user account, at present just a standard account. Can I have more than 1 administrator account >
I am nervous about reducing the only present account with...
Sorry everyone.
as you have prob gathered my eye sight is not what it was and sometimes when you enlarge and reduce text the l may appear to change to i. After all that Windows message says...
Thanks but this is what I get no
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Thanks again but smlr/exp gets same response whether in upper or lower case and whether or not I preceded with cd: / .
I think Windows must be activated tho or I could not access anything.
The...
Thanks Spunk but when I try simgr/xpr I get
C:\Windows\system32>simgr/xpr
'simgr' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
should I precede with...
To dalchinat
Is this what you are looking for : it looks ok to me if so and I will go ahead with check disk.
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Neither chkdsk nor sfc/scannow find any problems.
re suggestions of Dal China
Thankyou very much for your suggestions.
No I cannot access my Microsoft account - it is not my User Account. That was set up during a clean install by my son who...