Re: Help, windows dummy has bought one. I need it for a job or 100

[mick crane <mick.crane@gmail.com>]

On 2019-05-08 08:55, Gene Heskett wrote:

> That is a laborius process, taking at least 10x what any of my linux
> machines need to reboot. From powerup to login was at least 15 minutes.
>
> And I have been to that utility, but it has no place to disable ipv6 as 
> a
> whole, has lots of names in the menu I never heard of, and when I try 
> to
> give it an ipv4 address, I get to 192.168.71.3 error beep, error beep,
> and it will not take an entry past the 3. Now, I am 1st user, but no
> place do I recall being asked for admin rights via a passwd. Not 
> finding
> a shutdown, I killed it with the power switch when I gave up for the
> night.

That's weird. Maybe you aren't administrator
Probably you can change at
Control Panel\User Accounts\User Accounts\Manage Accounts\Change an 
Account
As I said in off list post it helps to try to disable much of the 
"helpful" windows stuff.
mick
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