Recent content by dan2229

It only goes to Package-Manager.net when you type in the URL. If you click on the pop-up, it takes you to various websites. The click bait is a message about Meagan leaving England or the Sad news about__________ fill-in the blank. I may actually check one more place, Facebook because the...

Yes, saw that too, and it was a bit unnerving. I ran CC Cleaner and Malwarebytes. Found some PUPs but none of them stopped the popups. My normal antivirus is Avast Free. When the software was first downloaded, I discovered it because it placed a new banner beneath the Google Chrome header on...

I recently got a really annoying pop-up on my Win10 laptop running the most recent update. It is called Package-Manager.net. My wife says she downloaded it to track her purchases made on Amazon. I have looked high and low on the 'Net and have been unable to even find a single reference to...

My computer will not launch Chrome on my laptop running the most recent version of Windows 10. I noticed that after my recent updates that Chrome had a slight different appearance. Edge and Firefox both open freely. I would abandon Chrome, but it has all my Bookmarks and also my Lastpass. I...

Finally updated to build 1607. However, the startup is really sloooooooooow! I'll see how it works in days to come. Thanks, Daniel

Just did an extensive search for rotating circles after update, and found a site that said to remove any usb device and the update will resume where it left off. So I unplugged my usb dongle for the mouse, and yep, it did resume at 75% working on updates. So I will give it the full 90 minutes...

Beilstwh, I went to how-to-fix-windows and followed the directions. My computer showed that a problem had been fixed. Then I went directly to the Windows 10 site and downloaded the new version directly from them. All the download went smoothly, the computer restarted on its own. It said it...

I have an Acer Aspire 5742 i3 with 2.40 GHz and 4.00 GB 64bit laptop that refuses to update. When I select Shutdown and Update it just grinds for maybe 10 hours or so with the spinning circle. I have to force a shut down at least twice, then the computer says it will try to recover the old...

Both, on the Acer i3. On the Asus i7, I rarely check my email, so I am not sure how it behaves when opening a pdf. Daniel

I have two laptops that both are running Win 10 and have wondered why I get an Edge browser for one computer when I open a pdf file, but I get a traditional format on the other. The computer that gives me and Edge pdf is an Acer i3 laptop and the one that creates a traditional pdf is an Asus i7...

I will try one of these. Thanks, Dan

Bill, I went to the pages listed and followed the "netplwiz" method. Here is what I found. In the dialog box two accounts are shown: dani3l.my3rs@windows.com HomeUsers;Administrators HomeUsers$ HomeUsers The box is already unchecked, and when I restart the computer, I...

I found that the restore point feature in Windows 10 is defaulted to off. So when I found that I could not access my laptop after Cortana created a new admin account, I was forced to use a password to access my computer. There was no going back to an earlier time when the computer had no...

How can I tell if that account is administrator? It requires a password, and I have never had a password for my computer. Daniel

I have two accounts. A local account and administrator account associated with test@windows.com. That is the email account I created for Cortana. It did not allow me to use my normal gmail.com. I have to supply a password for my local acount which I never used. In fact I abhor passwords to get...