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Windows 10 can be very persistent in asking you to create a PIN “for your convenience”, but what if you don’t want to remember a PIN? What if you are happy with a password-based sign-in? Windows 10 won’t quit nagging you about the digits and there is no obvious way to prevent it from throwing this cumbersome sign-in roadblock your way. Here is what you can do to disable the Create a PIN prompt during sign-in when running Windows 10 Professional.
Microsoft’s official download tool does not create an installation media so if you followed Microsoft’s standard upgrade path, you don’t own such a thing—yet. Oftentimes, even respectable PC makers fail to provide one, leaving you at the mercy of a restore partition. When the going gets tough, the tough have a Windows installer. Here is how to make one using your legitimate Windows 10 license and a couple of minutes worth of Internet access.
Microsoft made multiple attempts to end the free Windows 10 upgrade offer and many users doubt it will ever happen. Microsoft could well mean its most recent announcement and if that were to be the case, say good-bye to your free upgrade on December 31st, 2017. Here is what you can do about it if you happen to use assistive technologies.
Have you lost your Windows 10 Product Key? Here is how you can get it back with just a few easy steps. Anyone can do this. Better still: you can even retrieve the serial numbers you lost track of. Here is how to do it.
Kaspersky Lab’s newest generation of security software, Kaspersky Internet Security 2018, sports a nifty new feature: support for scanning of encrypted connections, including IMAP/SMTP over SSL between your mail client and your mail servers. While this behavior is mostly desirable, it may occasionally go too far. Kaspersky will intercept your mail connections, inject itself between your mail client and mail server, and use its own certificates to protect the “last mile” of your connectivity. This will cause your mail client to complain about invalid certificates from your mail service providers. The good news is you don’t need to remove the software nor do you need to deactivate scanning of encrypted connections. You can have your cake and eat it too.
Here is how to fix the problem.