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    From Sean Dennis@1:18/200 to All on Thu Apr 7 00:34:51 2022
    Hello All,

    I am a bit rusty with Windows but my mother, who is running Windows 10 Pro on her computer, suddenly was required to use the Ctrl-Alt-Del keypress before logging into her computer. She says this happened after a Windows update but I can't seem to find a way to turn it off. No group policies are set. Any ideas on how to turn this off?

    Her soundcard suddenly quit working also but I am still working on that.

    -- Sean

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  • From Vincent Coen@2:250/1 to Sean Dennis on Thu Apr 7 15:15:01 2022
    Hello Sean!

    Thursday April 07 2022 00:34, you wrote to All:

    Hello All,

    I am a bit rusty with Windows but my mother, who is running Windows 10
    Pro on her computer, suddenly was required to use the Ctrl-Alt-Del
    keypress before logging into her computer. She says this happened
    after a Windows update but I can't seem to find a way to turn it off.
    No group policies are set. Any ideas on how to turn this off?

    Her soundcard suddenly quit working also but I am still working on
    that.

    Simple fix - Install your fav. Linux distro :)

    And no my baby LT (for taking on the odd holiday to copy over camera photo SD cards) and a irregular one, does not have this as an issue for v10 or v11.

    Guessing it is, a local setting, does it offer boxes for user name and password
    at log in ?

    Vincent

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  • From Björn Felten@2:203/2 to Sean Dennis on Thu Apr 7 16:39:32 2022
    Any ideas on how to turn this off?

    As usual: Google is your friend.

    E.g.

    How do I stop Ctrl Alt Del on startup?
    To enable secure logon, open Run, type Control Userpasswords2 or netplwiz and hit Enter to open the User Accounts Properties box. Open the Advanced tab, and in the Secure logon section, click to clear the Require users to press Ctrl+Alt+Delete check box if you want to disable the CTRL+ALT+DELETE sequence.



    ..

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  • From Sean Dennis@1:18/200 to Vincent Coen on Thu Apr 7 10:56:52 2022
    Hello Vincent,

    07 Apr 22 15:15, you wrote to me:

    Simple fix - Install your fav. Linux distro :)

    My mother and I have actually been discussing that as of late. The two programs she uses are Firefox and Thunderbird. When I explained to her that I could move her FF and TB profiles over to a Linux install without any loss of productivity, she commented that she "saw no need to use Windows anymore". Her older but still very reliable HP commercial color laser printer is well-supported via HPLIP and CUPS. Windows keeps breaking it.

    We'll see where this goes. Converting her computer from W10 to Devuan Linux is going to take some effort.

    My dad will have to stay on Windows. Due to physical disability, he uses Dragon Professionally Speaking for speech-to-text capability and there's no good alternative for that under Linux.

    My mother is more "computer savvy" than my dad but my dad has tramautic brain injury from being hit head-on by a drunk driver at 70 MPH in 2003 so it is hard for him to learn and retain new skills anymore and even old skills can be very shaky at times.

    Guessing it is, a local setting, does it offer boxes for user name and
    password at log in ?

    It is a local setting but I can't figure out where it is being toggled on and off at.

    -- Sean

    ... If you stand by the sea, it sounds like putting a shell to your ear.
    --- GoldED+/LNX 1.1.5-b20180707
    * Origin: Outpost BBS * Johnson City, TN (1:18/200)
  • From Sean Dennis@1:18/200 to Bj”rn Felten on Thu Apr 7 10:52:18 2022
    Hello Björn,

    07 Apr 22 16:39, you wrote to me:

    As usual: Google is your friend.

    I did Google. I did do what you typed. However, with every Windows update her computer receives, this feature is toggled back on. That's what I'm trying to figure out.

    But thank you for taking the time out to look this up for me. I appreciate it.

    -- Sean

    ... Needs are a function of what other people have.
    --- GoldED+/LNX 1.1.5-b20180707
    * Origin: Outpost BBS * Johnson City, TN (1:18/200)
  • From Mike Powell@1:2320/105 to SEAN DENNIS on Thu Apr 7 16:00:00 2022
    I am a bit rusty with Windows but my mother, who is running Windows 10 Pro on her computer, suddenly was required to use the Ctrl-Alt-Del keypress before logging into her computer. She says this happened after a Windows update but I can't seem to find a way to turn it off. No group policies are set. Any ideas on how to turn this off?

    We use Windows on our work PCs. Win10. When we turn them on, we cannot
    get in until we press CTRL-ALT-DEL to bring up the logon screen.

    My mom has a new Windows machine. It has a "key" where she can use her fingerprint to get it but, if you are not set up for that, it also requires a CTRL-ALT-DEL to bring up a password screen.

    The fingerprint option will stop working if Windows has done an update, and
    she will have to enter a PIN # in its place.

    Mike


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  • From Sean Dennis@1:18/200 to Mike Powell on Thu Apr 7 21:32:27 2022
    Hello Mike,

    07 Apr 22 16:00, you wrote to me:

    My mom has a new Windows machine. It has a "key" where she can use
    her fingerprint to get it but, if you are not set up for that, it also requires a CTRL-ALT-DEL to bring up a password screen.

    So is this a permanent change then?

    -- Sean

    ... If an experiment works, something has gone wrong.
    --- GoldED+/LNX 1.1.5-b20180707
    * Origin: Outpost BBS * Johnson City, TN (1:18/200)