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I am doing a production at my school tonight, and we have a massive issue. The laptop which controls the lighting system has an automatic shut down time at 9.00. The show runs until almost 10.00 and when the laptop shuts down, as you can imagine, so do the lights. This is something which happens to all the PC's in the school. I'm pretty sure we have admin rights on the laptop itself, I just don't know how to disable this. If anyone can help it would be greatly appreciated.
I don´t know how the auto shutdown is implemented and I guess it needs to be working again the next day.
So the easiest method i can think of would be to set the laptops time to like 8 in the morning when you start setting up your presentation. This gives you a 13 hour time window before the auto shutdown kicks in. After your presentation just reset the time to the correct time.
If the Laptop has an Internet connection during the presentation maybe also disable automatic time setting (NTP) or it might update itself during the presentation and shut down anywas.
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My pc running Windows 10 is taking a long time to reach the desktop screen. I have timed the various stages as best I can.
from switch on to motherboard splash screen 30 secs
from splash screen to appearance of small spinning circle 20 secs (MSI board with AMD processor)
from appearance of spinning circle to Windows Welcome screen 20 secs.
from Welcome screen to desktop 8 secs
I recall many years ago to be able to watch files/drivers etc being loaded on a console type window so it was apparent which ones were taking a long time. I cant find anyway to do this, the Windows boot log doesnt give any time info.
Any advice on how to pursue this slow start problem is appreciated.
If your data storage is HDD it's okay. It's Windows 10, not Windows XP.
Possible you can decrease 1st step. Here motherboard manual is the best helper.
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Three or four times recently, I've tried shutting down my Windows 10 PC, only for it (mysteriously) to instead go back to the normal Windows login screen. And when I then try to shut the PC down from there, it (again mysteriously) warns me that this will shut down any connected users' sessions (but without giving any useful details).
All of which makes suspect (in a slightly paranoid, but probably justified way) that someone else might possibly now be logging in to my PC from time to time.
So: is there anything (i.e. application / trick / hack / whatever) I can use to find out / track who (or what) is currently (remotely) logged in to my Windows 10 PC?
Because I work from home, I guess it's conceivable that a client company's firewall / antivirus bot is doing something nasty (but legit) that I'm unaware of. But... I'd just like to know. Thanks!
Type query user in a command prompt. No need for elevation.
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This is a weird one. I turned Airplane mode on awhile ago and now cannot turn it off.
I've tried fairly extensive troubleshooting based on what I've found on-line, though most of it is just a rehash of the same advice.
Confirmed the physical WiFi switch is On
Tried Function + F3
Tried Function + Print Screen
Disabled and enabled the network adapter
Not sure what else to try. Here's a screenshot showing relevant settings. You'll see that the Airplane switch is toggled on and is actually disabled.
Try booting in Windows 10's safe mode and changing the setting or using Registry Editor again. It's possible a driver or something got stuck and is disabling it.
In my case, there is a switch on my laptop body. If it is there and it's off then turn it on.
That's it!!
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A friend of mine factory reset her computer on Windows 10, and lost an important document, so I'm wondering if there is a way for her to get it back, any help is useful.
I realize that a factory reset sets the computer back to it's original state of when it was first purchased, but I'm just curious if there are any free or cheap options available, besides going to a recover specialist.
Any advice would be nice - thanks!
Download the free version of Piriform Recuva. It is something I have used before for basic file recovery, and I don't know of a simpler GUI tool for Windows. Simply follow the instructions of this tutorial, or search for a simple video tutorial on YouTube if that is insufficient.
To maximize your chances of recovery reduce the amount of writes to the drive- setting it to read-only for example. Avoiding doing anything else while you attempt to recover the files is critical, newer files may silently destroy whatever is left of the older data. If at all possible you should attempt to boot from a drive or disk that doesn't contain the erased data, but if that is not possible/not something you know how to do then you may still be able to recover the data by booting the computer normally.
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My network user id keeps getting locked out, but I'm not doing it. I'm positive no one is using it besides me, but it is embedded in various places, for example I have a local IIS instance that is using it. However, my ID was locked over the weekend & I wasn't working. I'm assuming that my id is embedded somewhere else with an old password. How can I find out where?
Scour the Windows Security event logs on the machines where you may have set up scheduled tasks or services to run as you. Or if it's consistently happening, power down a machine and see if you still get locked out, if you do it's not that powered off machine, use the process of elimination that way (if possible).