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CT.

Thanks for the link. I just watched it and several others by Dave and all are worth the time for a balanced view of the topics covered. Especially, his views on the Win 11 Upgrade and the EOL of W10.

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Cybertooth

b,

Sorry, the Advanced tab is on the Netplwiz screen. I could have worded it better.

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b

I found a solution by poking around.

If you read the reset password dialog it says to press Ctrl+Alt+Delete to change your password (current user). This takes you to a black screen with options for:
Lock
Switch User
Sign out
Change a Password
Task Manager

However, if you go to the advanced tab then click on the Advanced button it brings up lusrmgr. This tool gives you many options including changing passwords and everything seems fully functional. Unlike netplwiz, lusrmgr also shows hidden and disabled accounts allowing you to manage them also!

If you select a user name then More Actions -> Properties you get this:

Of course you can just enter lusrmgr right into the Administrative Command window skipping netplwiz altogether.

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Alex5723

Hey y’all

I made another run at this today, figured by now MS should have their act in gear.
NOT SO!

1. Removed Registry Block
2. GRC InControl – Released Control
3. Core Isolation still ON
4. Open Shell – Uninstalled
5. Ran Dell Update & checked the Website. Updated BIOS and a ton of drivers.
6. Shut machine down and removed all external devices used laptop kbd & TP for the rest of the process.
7. Started it up and initiated offered Win 11 Upgrade
8. After an hour and 10 minutes machine was back to Win 10! x08007001f.

I really don’t want to do the clean install but it’s looking more and more like I’ll have to. Since I still have 5 months I’ll probably try it a few more times. A full install will have a lot of pain, remember it’s my Wife’s machine!

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b,

So will this prevent encryption if someone signs on with a Microsoft account w/admin privileges?

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DrBonzo

Hey Y’all,

I always use Local Accounts and make sure Bit Locker is turned off.

So I thought I’d do some testing to see if I could stop it from encrypting a drive if I tried to turn it on.

Via googling I found this key in the registry.
HKEY_LOCAL_Machine\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\BitLocker
Key : PreventDeviceEncryption
Type : DWord
Value: 1

So after using a Command window as Administrator and the commnad Manage-bde -status to insure that Bit Locker was off and all drives were unencrypted I made the registry change above and rebooted.

I next went into settings and searched for Device Encryption and proceeded to move the slider to turn Bit Locker ON and guess what it started to encrypt the drives!

What? I stopped the encryption by reversing the slider and waited for the drives to be once again be fully unencrypted. Then I check the registry and sure enough PreventDeviceEncryption was set to 0! Did I not do it right.

So Wash, Rinse, Repeat…Double checking everything after the reboot. I got the exact same results! So once again the Net is wrong. It may have worked at one time but as of W11 24H2 it sure doesn’t.

This was all conducted on my “Canary” machine right after taking an Image Backup with Image for Windows!

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Thanks Alex,

Folks this is a great read (the whole article).

One thing they fail to mention that there is a defense…the FULL IMAGE BACKUP.
Yes, down time will still be a problem, proper testing should catch it before reaching production…are you listening Microsoft?, but recovery is possible.

Also don’t discount this because it is Linux. These techniques can be used in any code.

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Nibbled To Death By Ducks, Alex5723, Cybertooth

Yes I did remove them before the block.

Ok, maybe my memory sucks! Yes it does!

That aside, what ever app I was using it refused to update since 4/23/25 and I stand by my comment about MS not listening to it’s customers.

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b,

When I click on “Open Outlook” it does.

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nhsj,

The simple answer is:

MyNumber = InputBox("Input the next number")
ActiveSheet.ExportAsFixedFormat Type:=xlTypePDF, Filename:= _
"D:\___ Boys\" & MyNumber" & ".pdf", Quality:=xlQualityStandard, IncludeDocProperties:= _
True, IgnorePrintAreas:=False, OpenAfterPublish:=True

As Paul stated if you want to automate the next number you’ll need to save it in a separate sheet, retrieve it, increment it, use it, and finally save it back for the next usage.

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nhsj,

Please post your macro so we can diagnose the problem.

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Dana,

Rather that make it password less, I use SysInternals AutoLogon utility. That way the account still has a password but it is automatically entered at boot. You do, however, have to enter it if you get to the lock screen.

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Paul,

Not that hard. See this post.

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Bruce,

Dell for one sets NVMe drives as Raid vs ACHI. So you may have raid running even though you are not using it. You can check in Your BIOS/UEFI to see how the drive controller is configured. If it’s raid IMHO change it to ACHI. Of course this is a multi step process that needs to be done carefully and as always you need to take an IMAGE BACKUP first!

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Rema,

Haven’t had a problem with this.

Red box shows all my pinned folders.

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