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You probably shouldn't use method 2 on that site, because your password will end up stored in the registry as plaintext. The autologon tool does the same thing, but encrypts your password.
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I've already done this, but while I don't get the password box when the computer boots or restarts, I presented get it when I wake the computer up.
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hooah posted:I've already done this, but while I don't get the password box when the computer boots or restarts, I presented get it when I wake the computer up. Go to Settings -> Accounts -> Sign in Options. In the Require Sign In section, there's a setting called "When waking, when should Windows require you to log in?" Change the drop box to "Never"
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Arsten posted:Go to Settings -> Accounts -> Sign in Options. In the Require Sign In section, there's a setting called "When waking, when should Windows require you to log in?" Change the drop box to "Never" Oh, I hadn't even though to go into Settings. Thanks!
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Sep 3, 2016 16:05
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Oh my god, Microsoft finally fixed their stupid mail app. Only took them a year.
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How can I do windows updates when I want to do them? I am on a laptop and sometimes my only option is to put it to sleep because its either update or sleep. And I may not turn it back on for a few days and it will still drain power in sleep. Not a good option. Twice I was on the beach on my bike and it was starting to rain. Shutdown? gently caress you, lets update. I had to walk my bike for over an hour with a trashbag over my laptop. Telling it to do the update tomorrow doesnt work, if I start to shut down its just going to do the update anyway?
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Sep 4, 2016 19:26
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OgNar posted:How can I do windows updates when I want to do them? Why aren't you using hibernate? It uses 0 power once the process finishes, and won't cause updates to install. Though I'm not seeing why, if you're not using it for a few days, you wouldn't just plug it in and do the update then?
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Sep 4, 2016 19:32
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fishmech posted:Why aren't you using hibernate? It uses 0 power once the process finishes, and won't cause updates to install. I see the options to sign out, sleep, update and shut down or update and restart. No hibernate. Also I dont live inside and get power off of solar. When it rains for a few days, no power. And that is ALWAYS when windows 10 wants to do a update.
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Sep 4, 2016 19:36
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OgNar posted:I see the options to sign out, sleep, update and shut down or update and restart. No hibernate. This will add it to the menu, but you can also rebind the power/sleep buttons to Hibernate once it's enabled, as opposed to being power or sleep: http://winaero.com/blog/add-hibernate-to-the-start-menu-in-windows-10/
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Sep 4, 2016 19:39
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fishmech posted:This will add it to the menu, but you can also rebind the power/sleep buttons to Hibernate once it's enabled, as opposed to being power or sleep: I actually did a quick search and found the hibernate option just before you posted this. I am actually set to hibernate after 3 hours. But even still I wouldnt want it doing the update while its folded and shoved in my bag. Which is fairly waterproofed because I do live outside. Meaning it will be loving cooking for an hour or so. There really should be an option to simply shut down and do the when it is more convenient. But I will give you link a try and see if it is better than sleep. ie uses less power. e:Also, thanks for the suggestion. OgNar fucked around with this message at 19:53 on Sep 4, 2016 |
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Sep 4, 2016 19:48
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OgNar posted:There really should be an option to simply shut down and do the when it is more convenient. Alt+F4 from the desktop still gives you the same dialog it has since Windows 95. You can select shut down from here independently of shut down & update.
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Sep 4, 2016 20:03
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Khablam posted:Alt+F4 from the desktop still gives you the same dialog it has since Windows 95. You can select shut down from here independently of shut down & update. Not for me. But thanks for that tip. e: You know I dont think I have used that way to shut down since 98. Completely forgot about it. OgNar fucked around with this message at 20:29 on Sep 4, 2016 |
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Sep 4, 2016 20:26
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OgNar posted:e: You know I dont think I have used that way to shut down since 98. Completely forgot about it. drat, son, the Alt+F4 mashathon is my favorite way to end the work day.
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Sep 4, 2016 21:22
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Sign out first and then shut down.
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Sep 4, 2016 21:32
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OgNar posted:Not for me. But thanks for that tip. I don't think it appears unless you have 'notify to restart' selected. Otherwise it's following your [automatic] preference to do it ASAP. I get the option to do either on a pro and a home install, so if you have something triggering a different behaviour you might want to look at what you changed.
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Sep 4, 2016 21:55
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OgNar posted:How can I do windows updates when I want to do them? I feel like living off the grid or whatever your situation is a legit reason to turn off windows updates, presumably you aren't connected to the internet all the time either so the latest security fix is not your most pressing concern.
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Sep 4, 2016 21:56
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UglyCrackBaby posted:Sign out first and then shut down. Tried this and switch user, neither gives me power options on screen just wifi and narrator. Also Ctrl+alt+del the power button on the lower right used to bypass updates but no longer does. I have done quite a but of searching and it seems they have simply taken this option out. I am down to this link which tells how to disable auto updates and then I will have to set a schedule to do it manually.
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Sep 4, 2016 21:59
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OgNar posted:Tried this and switch user, neither gives me power options on screen just wifi and narrator. Also Ctrl+alt+del the power button on the lower right used to bypass updates but no longer does. Honestly, if it was starting to rain, I went to shut my laptop down, and saw the goddamn "Update and shut down" option, I'd just hard-off it.
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Sep 4, 2016 22:05
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OgNar posted:But I will give you link a try and see if it is better than sleep. ie uses less power. Hibernate writes the memory to disk, tells the startup daemon to read in memory from disk, and then turns off. If it's actually burning substantially more battery than actually shut down is that's something we should probably know about. As an aside, even 'shut down' isn't shut down if Fast Startup is enabled in Control Panel > Power Options > 'Choose what the power buttons do' (same place you turned Hibernate on); it's closer to hibernating just the kernel and [I don't know maybe key drivers?]. Also go into Settings > Network set any connection you don't actually control (I'm guessing most of them) to metered and it won't download updates from them unless you tell it to. Do check your updates when you get the chance, though? I wonder if there's a way to default connections to metered. dont be mean to me fucked around with this message at 22:29 on Sep 4, 2016 |
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Sep 4, 2016 22:25
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Blue Footed Booby posted:Honestly, if it was starting to rain, I went to shut my laptop down, and saw the goddamn "Update and shut down" option, I'd just hard-off it. Yeah but I was worried and rushing and made a wrong decision. Luckily the last time it was only a light rain. Also just tried shutdown -s -t 00 which I got off of some website. But it looks like they took the option out of that also. So I did this last update. Was hoping to figure it out while I had this update from Friday hanging there. Thanks for the help. e:oh snap. Cant disable auto updating because my edition doesnt have group policy editor. OgNar fucked around with this message at 22:28 on Sep 4, 2016 |
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Sep 4, 2016 22:26
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You disable the service.
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Sep 4, 2016 23:06
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Khablam posted:You disable the service. Which doesnt allow you to check for updates at all. It gives just error 0x80070422, which googling tells me the fix is to make sure windows update is on. Which I am willing to do. Beats getting stuck with a forced update at inopportune times.
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Sep 4, 2016 23:33
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Can't you enable the update service as easily as you can disable it?
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Sep 4, 2016 23:39
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OgNar posted:Also just tried shutdown -s -t 00 which I got off of some website. But it looks like they took the option out of that also. Nah this works fine.
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A good poster posted:Can't you enable the update service as easily as you can disable it? Factor Mystic posted:Nah this works fine. If it works for you then I think maybe because I have the Home version it is disabled for me. Since Home is generally considered the lovely version. I assume you have Pro or Enterprise. I bought my laptop through one of the Dell deals and got what came with it, no selections. Took me until now to remember that I have the Home version, So I get less options "just because".
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True, I did test it on a Pro VM. I'm surprised that's not something available in Home. You used the /s flag, right? (Didn't say in your last post).
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Sep 5, 2016 02:00
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Home edition ironically limiting if you have no home.
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Factor Mystic posted:True, I did test it on a Pro VM. I'm surprised that's not something available in Home. You used the /s flag, right? (Didn't say in your last post). I didnt but I can give it a try the next time an update comes out. I will assume its the same though. Since all the other options everyone says are there but I dont see them at all. Khablam posted:Home edition ironically limiting if you have no home. If they still had their offices on Broadway in Santa Monica I would egg their windows.  But I think they moved in the last few months.
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OgNar posted:Yes which is what I will do. But seriouslyy though, Hoops for no reason. You can make a scheduled task that enables and disables the services for you, then set it to trigger when you write an event to the event log, then make a script that writes the event. After that bit of set up, just put the script on your desktop and run it whenever you want to check for updates. You can even give it to non-admin users to let them update it themselves.
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OgNar posted:I didnt but I can give it a try the next time an update comes out. I will assume its the same though. Since all the other options everyone says are there but I dont see them at all. e: oh, I see that you did say you specified -s in your original post. / vs - maybe?
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Windows Store thinks my computer's battery is low so it doesn't download updates, even though it has been plugged in for hours.
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Sir Unimaginative posted:Hibernate writes the memory to disk, tells the startup daemon to read in memory from disk, and then turns off. If it's actually burning substantially more battery than actually shut down is that's something we should probably know about. On top of battery use, it also means you gain a nice new permanent file on your system disk that's the same size as your RAM. If you have a lot of RAM in a computer with a smaller SSD as the system disk that's a problem. I'm running 32GB of RAM with a 120GB SSD. Enabling hibernation means over a quarter of my disk is gone.
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Most people have Fast Startup enabled and doesn't that just turn the shutdown into logout+hibernate? I would think you'd need to disable that too if you have Windows 10 to be able to recover the hibernate file.
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Sep 6, 2016 15:21
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Eletriarnation posted:Most people have Fast Startup enabled and doesn't that just turn the shutdown into logout+hibernate? I would think you'd need to disable that too if you have Windows 10 to be able to recover the hibernate file. I believe it actually mostly records the kernel + other very-system processes state during boot, and then "resumes" from that state. It is similar to hibernate, but the state isn't captured at shutdown.
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wolrah posted:On top of battery use, it also means you gain a nice new permanent file on your system disk that's the same size as your RAM. If you have a lot of RAM in a computer with a smaller SSD as the system disk that's a problem. I'm running 32GB of RAM with a 120GB SSD. Enabling hibernation means over a quarter of my disk is gone. I've kind of found that Windows boots faster if I disable fast boot because I've got an SSD. Only by a few seconds, but still. I only really see the use for fast boot if you have Windows installed on a non-SSD.
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Fast startup is the worst loving design decision MS could have ever made. I get CONSTANT calls requiring me to tell someone to hold shift to actually reinitialize the system. People do not understand that a reboot isn't really a reboot anymore.
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redeyes posted:Fast startup is the worst loving design decision MS could have ever made. I get CONSTANT calls requiring me to tell someone to hold shift to actually reinitialize the system. People do not understand that a reboot isn't really a reboot anymore. Well you can turn it off if it gives you problems.  Presumably also with a group policy.
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redeyes posted:Fast startup is the worst loving design decision MS could have ever made. I get CONSTANT calls requiring me to tell someone to hold shift to actually reinitialize the system. People do not understand that a reboot isn't really a reboot anymore. A reboot actually is a reboot. Shutdown, however, isn't.
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Mr. Fortitude posted:I've kind of found that Windows boots faster if I disable fast boot because I've got an SSD. Only by a few seconds, but still. I only really see the use for fast boot if you have Windows installed on a non-SSD. I think you're basically right. It shouldn't be slower than normal booting unless something's weird, but there's almost no question its real benefit is for those booting from spinning disks. It's a feature past its time that pretty much only exists to allow them to quote low boot times on lovely hardware.
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The overwhelming majority of laptops sold are still on 'spinning disks' and mid-range laptops are still pretty much the default purchase for most people (see: all back-to-school laptops). It's not a waste of time to optimise boot-times for them.
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