Windows 10: Windows 10 updates for limited satellite data accounts

Hello,


I live in the country and have to use satellite service for my internet. Unlike most people that live in populated areas using unlimited data cable providers, myself and many others have to pay for satellite data usage. It does not come cheap and my plan is set up for regular usage, not for windows 10 constant updates. I do have a unlimited data time slot between 3:00 am to 6:00 am that I can use when I needs many gigabits for downloads and updates. Sometimes downloads can happen and sometimes they do not. The service I have is rather sketchy at times and can drop out right in the middle of a download.


With that said my best situation would be to be able to schedule my updates for my time slot of 3:00 am to 6:00 am. Unfortunately windows 10 will not allow that. You have it set up for a 6 hour window of time you consider my inactivity portion of the day. Right now if I want to do an automatic update the only way I can set it up is to set it by time I am not using the computer within a 6 hour time slot. So if for some reason it falls outside of my unlimited time slot it is costing me money. I have my activity time set at 9:00 am to 3:00 am in hopes that any update will start at 3:00 am. My other alternative is to get up at 3:00 am and manually start the update. I do not think that is a very realistic situation, do you? What if the update starts at 6:30 am? I have to pay for it and lose usage data for my regular things.


Would you please get your people to revise the software to be more realistic for the many people like myself and allow us to put in the time slot unrestricted by your 6 hour window. Most satellite internet providers only provide a 3 hour window for unlimited data.


Thank you

Jeff In rural Wisconsin

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Strange Windows 10 User Account issue.

Unfortunately I had done those steps numerous reboots, it just, reappears for no good reason. The base account isn't even a Microsoft account, it's a local account.

I haven't quite tried the built in administrator account on W10, but so far in my experience on my own computer, the built in account seemed to have absolutely no more control than I did on my own.

It's just strange, I go in, it warns me twice about deleting the account, then it's gone. Reboot, and it's back?

EDIT: Just to specify, both command line and Netplwiz both say only HIS account exists on the computer, it doesn't list this rogue account. This is what I meant in my first post about the fact that even Windows doesn't seem to believe it exists, HALF the time. *Frown

 

Windows 10 Tweaks

As you may already know, Windows 10 (as well as Windows 8) allow you to log in with a valid Microsoft account, instead of creating a local account that only works on your machine. However, you may prefer to keep a local account for privacy reasons. If you do, though, some Windows 10 features—like Cortana—may not work. Despite the default behavior, the Windows 10 Store is not one of them. You can still log in to your Microsoft account for just the Store without switching to a full Microsoft account. The process, however, is not terribly obvious. To do so, follow these steps:

• Launch the Store from your Start menu.
• Click the user icon next to the search box.
• Click “Sign-in” from the menu that appears.
• Choose “Microsoft account” and log in like normal.
• When the “Make it yours” box appears do not enter your password. Instead, click “Sign in to just this app instead.”

from Lifehacker

 

Windows 10 Tweaks

Pressing “Windows+Pause Break” (it’s up there next to scroll lock) opens the “System” Window.

Windows 10: In the new version of Windows, Explorer has a section called Quick Access. This includes your frequent folders and recent files. Explorer defaults to opening this page when you open a new window. If you’d rather open the usual This PC, with links to your drives and library folders, follow these steps:

• Open a new Explorer window.
• Click View in the ribbon.
• Click Options.
• Under General, next to “Open File Explorer to:” choose “This PC.”
• Click OK

credit to Lifehacker.