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Got a new ASUS for my daughter. It comes preloaded with win 10 home. Of course - no CD as per buying a laptop with Windows preinstalled.
Change the login password (user account). Wrote it down - confirmed it and all.
Reboot - input same password 6 times - "The password in incorrect. Try again."
Now what?
The verdict is still out on which is preferable:
a) setting up windows 10
or
b) sticking a nail gun to your forehead and letting her rip
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Or google for password recovery procedure and W10 ISO image is available on Microsoft site.
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I have my list of qualms about Windows 10 too, but I seriously doubt that the problem is Windows 10 in this case.
At the risk of sounding like an apathetic person, I think that you may likely have the same problem with Windows 7 / Linux Mint / Whatever OS needing a password to login.
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Mladen Janković wrote: Or google for password recovery procedure and W10 ISO image is available on Microsoft site.
Hard to do when you can't login, then replace IE's default search engine to Google so you can google, then download Chrome so you can find the address bar, then burn an ISO on a machine that doesn't have a DVD, not to mention one that can write to a DVD.
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: ...then burn an ISO on a machine that doesn't have a DVD, not to mention one that can write to a DVD.
Burn it to USB, use Rufus - Create bootable USB drives the easy way[^]>
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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You don't need Chrome nor to change IE/Edge's default search engine to get W10 installation image and it's easy to find address bar. If you don't have DVD drive, you can use USB flash drive.
Having another machine, to prepare for recovery process is expected, but I guess you deserve that when you're careless enough to screw password change process.
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Yes, but apart from that, it's a piece of cake.
Me, I'm still waiting for lenovo to send me a boot disc so that I can undo the wreckage that fastboot (which makes winio the Fastest Windows Ever!)(to kill machines stone dead) caused.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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23741 wrote: a) setting up windows 10
That costs a lot of time and solves one problem, maybe.
23741 wrote: b) sticking a nail gun to your forehead and letting her rip
If your aim is good, it'll solve ALL of your* problems within a few seconds.
I'll leave the choice up to you 
* Others might experience a small inconvenience though.
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The only thing I could imagine is that the input method was changed accidentally (somehow Alt+Shift was pressed?). But this could be true only if you have multiple languages installed.
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I seriously doubt it was caused by a bug.
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It is my thought as well.
But I imagined that the only situation where the user presses the correct keys and the password entered is wrong could be when the input method is changed since that could essentially change the language.
I was going to say that the password being entered was probably wrong, but I figured Windows was already doing an exceedingly good job of it. 
modified 28-Aug-16 20:45pm.
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I've seen that happen a few times, where the input method switched from English US (the more-or-less default layout for keyboards) to English UK, which has a lot of the non-alphanumeric chars in different places.
Of course, if moronic security "experts" didn't insist that you use non-alphanumeric chars in passwords, that wouldn't be a problem.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Oh I guess I know: your password contains at least one non-US-English character, ähm? See the Insider News just a few days ago: Outlook Globalization[^]. 
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Bingo. The password had non alphanumeric characters including a dollar sign.
If Microsoft spent 1 percent of the time doing QA on their software that they do on the spy machine - maybe things would be different.
All the older MS devs that have left MS are laughing their asses off at what MS has become.
Got Win 7 Pro installed - I lobotomized a few things to reduce the chatter on the wire and she's purring.
Windows 10 reminds me of the movie Deliverance - "This river took a bad turn". And we all know what happens to Ned Beatty in the end..
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23741 wrote: a dollar sign
But $ is an ASCII character. At least, I used to think so...
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You only need to test if the PC or O/S is defective with this simple test:
Unplug PC.
Remove peripherals, if any.
Make sure lid is closed.
Gently lower into a 5% saline solution.
It should float. If it doesn't return to retailer for replacement.*
* Bring nail-gun to encourage compliance with a smile.
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You're quoting the medieval test for a witch. How do you close the lid on a witch?
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Witches were usually ducked in fresh-water, although practices vary.
How do you close the lid on a witch? See previous sentence.
But, although there are similarities to witch-testing, my recommendation is taken from the very strictest scientific procedures I could think up at the moment.
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| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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29th August marks the birthday for me. Although saying stuff like, "I learnt a lot" means nothing but I did learn a lot from non-Mentoring mentors unknowingly. Just 4 years ago I was a no one, in the family, friends, area and even on the Internet. Desperation motivated me to learn HTML, heartbreak forced me to go and learn C#, behavior of family helped me a lot in being a good software developer when I was getting too much annoying error messages. Their behavior helped me to know "patience" a bit more clearly.
Basically, I remember my life took a turn of 180 degrees when I first accepted the Bob! I mean the sticker pack, that was the time when my family really allowed me to do programming on my Pentium 4 desktop (until then I had to wake up at nights, when everyone was asleep, so that they cannot come into the room and unplug the desktop, for no reason at all!).
How I spend this night is a bit awkward, I just overdose myself with 2-4 mugs of tea, I listen to Eminem, I reconsider the hell I was put through. But sometimes, you have to go through these stages. Finally, I go to sleep hoping my next year is a better one when it never is. Maybe, I should leave it out for some other time.  Happy birthday to myself, and to others out there who share the same date with me.
If you are from Pakistan, we can share some time, or tea tomorrow!
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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Happy birthday, happy coding!
/ravi
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Thank you, Ravi.
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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Happy birthday! Well, in my country your birthday isn't until another hour, but let's pretend it is!
May the future bring less desperation (although you'll have plenty if you're still doing HTML), more love (and less heartbreak), and lots of clean code!
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Yup, that timezone really bugs me in a while but we have to stick to it.
Thank you, Sander.
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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