Apparently Win 10, which our desktop is, does not play nicely on housenets with Win 7…it really doesn’t play well with lower levels of Windows, but it doesn’t even talk nicely to 7. It wants a user name (which could be, oh, let us see, computer a, computer b, or some new one specific to the net—3 variables to guess) and a password, which we figure SHOULD match the user name, except that this COULD refer to the target computer, OR the password of the group, or the individual password of the originating computer) another 3 variables. Are we calculating the variables, friends? Plus are we considering the possibility of a keying error in one try or another? Win 10 wants you to link directly, not by housenet, but you’re still stuck. Oh, and if you’ve ever had a housenet created by a ‘dead’ computer, you have to go into REGEDIT and try to kill it from there, but you must do that on every one of, oh, 3-5 machines, some of which are like, printers, with no regedit, and fix it there and get it offline before, at computer speed, it can resurrect that former network, which persists like a movie zombie.
Maddening. We finally have one of ours talking to another, but not talking to the ‘central’ machine of the network…and we still don’t know the answers to all or any of the above. I have NEVER seen such a bollixed-up launch of a product as this, which reaches backward in its history to really screw things up which it is not even supposed to mess with.
@BlueCatShip
Your comment didn’t disappear. It’s right there, but I think you replied to a different post from the one you intended to.
Aha! Yes, indeed, there it is, but it got placed in reply to your Win10 post instead of your Internet of Things Tea Kettle post. Huh. @CJ, my comment that I’ve posted things occasionally and they haven’tshown up, that I think I’d pressed Pst Reply rather than Preiew, still stands. It happens occasionally, and mystifies me. Rarely, I’ll accidentally post to a different reply than I’d intended, as this case shows. Thanks, GreenWyvern, for pointing out I did get it posted after all.
I use NoteMster, but will try ColorNote, thaks! My basic problem is the text on an iPhone screen is too small for me, though NoteMaster lets me adjust the size of note text somewhat. Checkboxes (actually checkable) sound really useful.
CJ: Wind advisory. I think this is the storm I mentioned some time ago, originating in the West Pacific, traveled all the way to the Pacific NW and BC.
Don’t know why there’s no sun up in the sky
Stormy weather
I hear we’re due for a blow. I HOPE it’s not like the one that robbed us of electricity for 8 days last November: Spokane still hasn’t finished repairs from that one.
Good luck on your weather.
I suspect that my prior post didn’t get through to your server; we were on the road and one of the hotels had extremely spotty wi-fi; connection dropped out with no warning and it was very s l o w when it was connected. Probably dropped out just as I hit “post”. At least your network is accessible again. W10 does seem to be a bit quirkier that prior releases; DH today couldn’t get on to Wikipedia today; ESET said it was because the site’s certificate was expired. What fixed the problem was running the W10 update. Then no problems. Weird.
We got 2.07″ from midnight to 2230. Comin’ your way!
We got anywhere from 5 1/2 (at the airport) to 10 inches (at the port) yesterday, with some pretty messy wind gusts. Friday isn’t supposed to be too bad, but then we’ve got another wave coming in Saturday. They’re comparing whats coming to storms over 50 years ago, so we could be slammed hard.
Back On Topic, my morning round of news brought me this from ComputerWorld about 5 critical Windows updates, 10 in all, including changes to the way Win-7 & 8 handle updates, i.e. the way Win-10 does!
Good luck. (I only use Windows once a year for TurboTax. I don’t like the idea of using the online approach!)
Cringe Cringe.
Just don’t lose the Great American Novel to Windows.
Have Fun.