Recent content by stonecherub

FAIL! FAIL! FAIL! FAIL! FAIL! I think I am stuck in my local account and cannot get out. Every time I change the password, it's for THAT account. In one of the help pages, it said that failure to log-in for more than two years would result in the account being closed. That could be possible, I...

As you said, yesterday's multiply rejected password was there for "live.com". I have never used live.com (that I know of). A line of text told me that (only) a MS app could sign me in but Excel came up just fine without doing so.

Win 11 Ver 25H2 Build 26200.7623 Woke up one morning an old man. Use-ta be a geek but lately I been runnin' a local account, mainly using my computer for mail, news, and Bach, so I've forgotten a lot of stuff. I am now in password hell good and proper. Trying to put my sister-in-law on my...

TraderGary: You are quite correct but I am IBM-cards old with a lot of baggage and the fight to get some kind of connectivity was bruising with accounts created and deleted because there wasn't anything else to try. Deleting Elaine's MS account and rebuilding it solved the problem. Thanks for...

Thanks, Rollback_Jockey, turns out Ms 365 wasn't fully installed.

Finally traded my wife's old Win 10 box for a new mini running Win 11 Pro. I made an account for her on the new machine and logged-in to our family Microsoft 365 account using her name and password. Where are the OneDrive files from her old Win 10 box? How do I get access to them for her?

I have bopped back and forth between Standard and Admin for all of the accounts in the system in my tests. I have not recognized any cause for the effects observed. Should I: Start a new thread? Take it to Microsoft?

As of Sunday 9 July, the only reliable network I have are the two local accounts with the same name and password on all 3 machines. I built them because of what I have read that such common accounts facilitate network connections. An experiment changing one on the mini to a Standard user finds...

As of Saturday: I have not been able to create a Win 11 network that includes a standard user, despite hours of effort. All three computers run Windows 11 22H2 Build 22621.- 1848 for Pro and 1928 for Home. I even changed my workgroup name to be the same as my WiFi. Following several...

This gets stranger and stranger. I decided to make a new common user account for all 3 machines, clicking "don't have a sign-in" and "not a Microsoft account." I was invited to provide a name, a password, and security questions on each machine. (Those are what the pop-up input boxes want!)...

7-5 hsehestedt: I followed your instructions to create a test folder where everybody could do everything. Logged-in to the mini with admin privileges, I had access to it. Logged in with wife's user privileges, "You do not have permission ..." When I changed Password protection to ON for...

With today's updates, all 3 computers are using build 226121.1848. This time I went through the entire checklist, making sure to log in to all accounts using the password. All three machines have a "stone" admin account with the same password (Step 4) and all contain folders left over from a...

Denis: Being an old Naval Aviator, I love checklists. I followed yours slavishly through step 5, the rest of them didn't seem to concern me. I already had a local admin account with a common pw on two of the three computers, and when I put it on the third, Suddenly I was able to access the...

hsehestedt: I discovered this thread while trying to set up a new Win 11 mini for my wife, a task that gets rid of the last win 10 machine. I followed your checklist. But, as has been my experience for years in home netwoking, I am not worthy. I don't have permission. I will NEVER be given...

In Flanders Field, the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place. Elevenforum's wallpaper reminded me of that, today being Armistice Day and will always be, regardless of what we veterans have done subsequent. Gotta go.