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Thanks to all who offered suggestions.  For now, I’ll check out Serviio, and in the meantime, use an HDMI direct connection.  Again, thanks to all.

 

best regards,

Doug

Well, I guess MS felt they needed to hose up ALL versions of Office Pro.  Now both 2021 and my 2019 Office Pro are exhibiting the same bad behavior.  Although you can get to the signatures by selection the gmail.com accounts, you no longer can save a default for new or reply mail.  This is obviously a major bug in the ‘updates’, and hopefully MS will be hounded enough to fix it.  Today is ‘patch Tuesday’ so perhaps a fix is only months away.

If by some chance someone figures a way to get these to appear in the drop down in the Outlook application, I would very much appreciate knowing how you got it to work.

best regards,

Doug

I gave up on both Sumo and File Hippo a few years ago and moved over to Patch my PC.  They seem to stay on top of most applications (within 12 hours of actual release) and install silently without any ‘add ons’ if they are included in the freeware.  I would highly recommend checking the application out. I’ve been very pleased.  Here is the link for the d/l.

https://patchmypc.com/home-updater-download

 

best regards,

d

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Highsierra46

Snipping tool is a great built in way to go, but I’ve had a very useful freeware tool for many years called ‘Format Factory’.  This is a great utility to convert virtually any file type to another format.  It has the ability to work with pictures, movies, documents, etc.  There is even a screen capture capability built in.  Although it may look a little intimidating at first, if you poke around for 10 minutes or so, it’s use will become evident.  From a video conversion standpoint, it’s one of the fastest tools I’ve found to convert .mp4 to .avi. (I’ve got an ‘older’ smart tv, and it won’t stream .mp4, just .avi).  Good luck.

 

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Weatherguy

I’ve tried installing my user on my wife’s machine and then her user on my machine.  Neither option seems to work.  I still get the same permissions notification.

 

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d

Thanks for the suggestion.  I have ‘reset’ all my adapters and reset the network on both machines to no avail.  I don’t have any 3rd party AV running on either machine.  I use Windows defender (real time) and once a day run Malwarebytes stand alone to check for malicious software.  No Norton or McAfee or any other 3rd party AV software running on either device.  (too many issues in the past).  Thank you though for your suggestion.

Reaching the end of my rope here.  It simply shouldn’t be this difficult for an OS (same version and build) on 2 machines to talk to each other.  It’s frustrating and infuriating that Microsoft can be so belligerent regarding breaking something and then not making it a priority to fix it.  I’ve read countless reports of others in blogs where essentially the same thing has happened, and it’s taken literally years to fix.

regards,

d

Paul (et al),

Thank you for your comments and kind suggestions, however, I’m no closer to getting the 2 machines (which had been working perfectly fine prior to January’s ‘patch Tuesday update), to actually connect again.

It seems to me that as long as you have the appropriate shares named, and appropriate sharing functionality enabled, it shouldn’t be any more complex than that.  For some reason, the fine folks at Microsoft have created a monster in the OS that even their own staff can’t locate and kill.

At this point, I give up, and will simply use TeamViewer or some other remote product to connect and share files between the 2 machines.  Perhaps a future patch Tuesday will untangle the web created last month.

Again, thanks to all that took the trouble to respond.

Regards,

d

Thank you Vincenzo.  If I understand your post correctly, you are suggesting that I add a user account to one of the machines so it’s duplicated on both.  (could be the user from machine 1 put on machine 2 or vice versa.  At least that way the same account appears on both.  Then enable password protected sharing and log on to the ‘remote’ machine via UNC which has machine name-username?

 

regards,

d

Thanks Paul,

When I enter net view from a command prompt, I do see (as expected) the Cisco router, machine 1 and machine 2.  And, as I’ve mentioned, the machines are both listed in the network view in explorer. (from either machine).

Again, the thing that is puzzling is that this all worked fine prior to the last MS Windows update in January.  Something that MS did ‘broke’ the connectivity between my 2 machines, but getting them to admit that, let alone fix it is a far stretch.

I do appreciate and am grateful for the assistance.

regards,

d

Hi Paul,

When I filter the security log on ‘critical, warning, or error’, nothing comes up.  That is what is confusing to me.  I’ve tried multiple times with different combinations of credentials to reach my other machine, so there should be a least an error of some sort showing it didn’t connect, shouldn’t there?

regards,

d

Good morning.  Yes, in my initial description, I indicated that I have network discovery turned on in both advanced sharing (public and private), and all related services (on both machines).  Here is a complete list of all the services that I’ve insured are activated;

• Function Discovery Provider Host (FDPHost)
• Function Discovery Resource Publication (FDResPub)
• Network Connections (NetMan)
• UPnP Device Host (UPnPHost)
• Peer Name Resolution Protocol (PNRPSvc)
• Peer Networking Grouping (P2PSvc)
• Peer Networking Identity Manager (P2PIMSvc)

Again, thank you for your assistance.

d

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jabeattyauditor

thank you Paul.  I’m in new territory here.  it appears to be about a 20mb file, and when I look at security, I see a very long list of ‘audit’ functions.  There are a few logons mentioned, but no failures or ‘failed attempts’ at logon.  Is there something specific I can search for to identify the issue?  Thank you again,

Regards,

d

Well, no joy with either combo.  I tried the computer name\user account then on the password line I tried both the local password and the microsoft password.  Neither made the network happy.  Again, thanks for the added suggestions.

regards,

d

 

this gave an interesting reply.  something about multiple connections with the same user not being allowed.  And is the account name the Microsoft account and Microsoft password, or the local name and password?

regards,

d

When I try to access directly via IP address, I get a ‘enter network credentials’ prompt.  Regardless of the combination of user name/password I enter, nothing works.

regards,

d