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This guide might help you to reset the password of a local account. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4027579windows-10-create-a-password-reset-disk-for-a-local-account I do not know how you can recover an administrator account.

Yes, such a feature as you ask is available on Windows OS. Just not on Windows 8.1. It is only available on Windows 10 AFAIK. (The feature about connecting the lock screen tiles to the Internet and receiving updates through them ) But whether it allows you to select apps that show real-time...

Restoring the Audio Driver in Windows 8 Move the mouse pointer to the lower-left corner of the screen, right-click, select Device Manager from the menu. Double-click Sound, video, and game controllers. Right-click the name of the audio device and select Properties. Click the Driver tab. Click...

But Microsoft has stopped support for Windows XP. Then how in this world can anybody release updates for Windows XP? Also, how would you release updates to Vista? Both are already out of support from Microsoft.

The screenshot does not show any end of support date for Windows 8. It just mentions the end date of Windows 8 which is in 2023. I believe updating from Windows 8 to Windows 8.1 is easy and free. And there is not much difference between Windows 8 and 8.1 apart from Windows the start menu. I am...

Follow these steps to fix the Single-click option: Step 1: Access File Explorer Options. Tip: File Explorer Options are also referred to as Folder Options. Step 2: Select the clicking option. In the General settings, under Click items as follows, choose Single-click to open an item (point to...

Perhaps, this course might help: Link Removed It can be finished from start to end within a few days. Even less than 5 days if you can learn non-stop for a huge amount of time everyday. Note: I do not endorse this course. Be your own judge and decide whether you want to do this course or not...

Just set up your New Acer laptop with Outlook account and all of the mails, calendars, and settings will automatically be copied to your new device. If that is not an option then you can use a cheap migration tool that will migrate all of the data for you from one account to another. I hope...

IMO the best file server options are un-RAID, FreeNAS, and windows (server), depending on what you want to do. Windows server is probably the easiest to handle for non-Linux people, but also the most expensive. In normal windows, much of the awesome functionality is a bit hidden. Unraid is a...

The pandemic has introduced a new schedule. The updates from Windows are now slow, buggy and not-so-punctual. Also updating Windows has become easier now. Just download the Windows update Assistant tool and you are good to go. It updates Windows to any latest version of your choice and breaks...

OCR the image, file, or screenshot you put in OneNote OneNote automatically did an OCR scan on anything you inserted into OneNote. You can check to make sure by right-clicking on any picture, screenshot, or file you inserted. Select “Make Text in Image Searchable” and then make sure the correct...

If you are such a big fan Asphalt then you would not like pushing your leg up the people who made it. You can buy Asphalt from the makers and then run it on your PC. This is the most damn good advice you can get from this forum. Anyway, I have found a link for you...

The cheapest and the lightest Anti-Virus that I use is Malwarebytes. It is incredibly small at less than 50 MB. And it protects you from harm by nipping it in the bud itself. So go for Malwarebytes or go for Windows Defender. Your choice.

Since when did you notice this behavior? What other command do you run just before running this? Is there a change in your habit of running this command before or after some other commands? It may be that you have changed the sequence of running some commands which cause this behavior. If...

I found a freeware program called "RunProcess.exe" written by Frank P. Westlake that can run a process bound to the desktop of a non-interactive (e.g. off-screen) WindowStation. However, there is no source. Therefore I've implemented my own version (simpler than Frank Westlake's) with Java and...