Recent content by bbxrider

I know I can do that and have done it, I'm frustrated and annoyed I can't connect using my admin acct that is my ms acct!! it won't accept my ms acct pswd, why not? because its not a local acct? this can't be right

thanks fabler that was easy when you know how, thanks for that pin clarification, its really powerful, not sure where I got the idea its only 4 characters and numeric to boot, this whole windows hello thing does look pretty comprehensive, just embarrassed I didn't even know it like that, I...

thanks for all the time your spending on this not sure what your getting at with "Did you re-enable all the Windows Hello settings after your last RDP thread?", I didn't knowingly disable any windows hello settings, just getting familiar with this whole "windows hello" concept, it appears to be...

trying to change my current login from pin to username/pswd, the option to remove using pin for sign on is greyed out. per gemini, to fix that suggests runniing sfc , and 3 DISM tools, I ran sfc, no issues there and I have tried running the 1st, DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /CheckHealth, but it...

the option to remove using pin for sign on is greyed out, per gemini, to fix that suggests runniing sfc , and 3 DISM tools, I ran sfc, no issues there and I have tried running the 1st, DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /CheckHealth, but it doesn't finish after 2 hrs, so not sure how to continue to be...

thanks again for the continuing advice, just to test, I created a local user acct and was able to connect using that acct credentials, so I feel better that I haven't lost my mind, but still want figure out why the original acct is so elusive, I seem to remember that in the past, with a new pc...

first let me say big thanks for sticking with this, I used to be pretty good with this stuff but now feel like an idiot, but here goes, when trying \\bbx, I get the enter network credentials dialog and I also got IIS. thinking perhaps its looking for a network username/password and not the win11...

the default name was something like DESKTOP-AC.... isn't there someplace that I can find that default name?

thanks, I did connected to the win10 pc on my win11 pc, but still struggling, embarassingly, finding the 'network' password to the win11 pc to get access to it from the win10 pc, I gave the win11 pc a name at some point, replacing the default name, which shows as the host name in systeminfo, but...

I know there are different network credentials for different network connections, see pic, I'm looking for the credentials to establish local private lan file sharing, these are my pc's, I don't remember setting a username and password for this pc networking and can't find where they might be so...

thanks for the reply, looks like good info there

thanks for your help, I think I will disconnect one drive and use another service for files I want to have cloud access. is there any documentation of disconnecting one drive that you recommend? I had disconnected one drive on my win 10 box and seem to remember it was difficult, it seemed to...

this is for a new dell laptop with win 11 installed by dell I have about 500gb of files to copy from my win 10 box to new win 11. copied a 15gb bunch via win explorer across my local net. many of the copied files are marked with the red circle. they seem to be ok, ie, they open ok and there's...