Random Tech Questions

[elevenism]

Ok so, yeah, y'all. It's a lock screen.

We upgraded from win 8 to win 10 to be able to read a multipartition micro SD card.

On win 8, the username was permanently there: it was upon booting up the computer: say, if the power went out, that I'd have to answer the password.

But NOW, the username is not there, now that it's upgraded.

I'm assuming it's one of my mom's old email addresses. But we have NO FUCKING IDEA which one it was.

I think this thing is like, seven years old?

So, like, holy fucking Christ!

I WOULD just say "fuck this computer" and get a new (used) one for cheap, but, it has about 5,000 family photos on it going back ten years or so.

Like, we dumped.the photos from old digital.cameras and cell phones onto it. It also contains my plex server, which is like, our main form of entertainment. We have share4shared with so many people that we have access to like, WAY more movies and shows than Netflix and Hulu combined.

Do you guys think a tech shop can get around it?

I'm losing my goddamn mind here.

[allegro]

I'm assuming it's one of my mom's old email addresses. But we have NO FUCKING IDEA which one it was.

Did you try the hotmail email as the login?

Hotmail is Microsoft.

Enter the entire hotmail email address (e.g. momsemail@hotmail.com)

And once you get it running, again, for the love of Buddha BACK THE FUCKING THING UP, even if it’s only by uploading the photos to a free Dropbox account.

[elevenism]

Did you try the hotmail email as the login?

Hotmail is Microsoft.

Enter the entire hotmail email address (e.g. momsemail@hotmail.com)

And once you get it running, again, for the love of Buddha BACK THE FUCKING THING UP, even if it’s only by uploading the photos to a free Dropbox account.

It's just that we don't REMEMBER the hotmail login email. I'm praying we get it back.

That's what we're trying to do, is an "account recovery" thing.

Like, it shows the email connected to the number, but it's the ka*****@hotmail.com deal. It doesn't show all of it.

[allegro]

It's just that we don't REMEMBER the hotmail login email. I'm praying we get it back.

That's what we're trying to do, is an "account recovery" thing.

Like, it shows the email connected to the number, but it's the ka*****@hotmail.com deal. It doesn't show all of it.

And none of you have ever received email from that address?

Can you search your emails and see if it comes up? Your Gmail, all mail, from @hotmail.

Your mom can’t remember an email ID that started with “ka??”

Like a cat or dog name or something?

See also this

I was able to open the command prompt before logging in and displaying the user
name was disabled some how... Enabled it and boom, username popped right up.