Recent content by duecks

I've tried with and without, did not make a difference with the google account. And thats the only one affected.

have done that several times

I'm having an issue where my Google account keeps signing out in Microsoft Edge, but only after about a day. The symptoms: When I log into my Google account (using my username, password, and 2FA), I can sign in with no issues. If I close and reopen Edge, I stay signed in. However, if I wait 1...

I was watching videos on people bypassing and resetting passwords using Hirens Boot CD and a bootable usb drive. I thought that the windows 11 requirement of TPM was supposed to prevent that. If it does not prevent it, then how do I secure my pc against these hacks? I do have all my drives...

This is my go to cleaner: https://github.com/builtbybel/CrapFixer

Turned out to be setting in the windscribe vpn extension. Originally, I had all the extensions disabled but it did not fix the original problem. Then I deleted each extension one at a time which led me to the problem. So, I learned that when diagnosing, just disabling the extension is not...

Hello, Using edge browser. There's a single, certain website I use with an issue. When I try to log in, I enter my username, password, 2fa code. I then get looped back in the same login screen, an endless loop. If I use edge "in private" or edge "guest" mode, I have no problems with that...

I'm using linux on a 20 year old laptop with low resources that only runs Adguard Home. Works fine.

I had a problem with win11 time sync. Normally I would not care if the time was off several minutes but it affects my 2FA TOTP to where it would not work. I tried the workaround and the time is now accurate. Thanks!

Hello, On my windows 11 desktop, I have my personalization set up the way I want it. Colors, ribbon, theme, etc. Is there an easy setting to backup and restore personalization settings after a reinstall of the operating system?

OK, I tried that, now I can see .bek, .txt files, and a volume information folder, but the offline scan still did not work. I used this website as a guide: https://www.m3datarecovery.com/wiki/manage-bitlocker-command-line.html and used this command, step 5, to manually copy the necessary files...

They all end in .txt but, I have not checked for hidden files. I'll try that in a few days. Thanks

I did that. Saved it to the USB, saved it to my Microsoft account and printed it. All 3 locations have the same key. The USB saved file is text, readable with notepad, the same as the printed copy and Microsoft account. Is the USB file supposed to be a different format?

Its a human readable key. The usb key is text. The same as if I print it out. If its supposed to be a non text file version, then how would you obtain that?

Hello, I used the BitLocker manager and saved my bitlocker keys to a usb drive and printed them out. Attempted to do a windows defender offline scan. It asked to plug in the usb drive but could not find the bitlocker code. I get a message saying " there is not a valid recovery key on this...