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I didn't need a password to log into the WookieTab, and I skip it on the desktop.
Not any more ... WookieTab is now asking for my password and won't accept blank any more. At a guess it's my MS ID password it wants. 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Run it as a local user -- bearing in mind that winio will often "forget" that you want to run it as a local user, and fire it up with your MS ID.
When I rebuilt my laptop, I didn't even give it my MS ID, so it can't fark me around like that, any more.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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You have been Appled again? 
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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OriginalGriff wrote: my MS ID password
with 100+ bits of entropy, I trust.
Cheers,
Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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It's an elephanting GUID ... and paste doesn't work ...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: and paste doesn't work ...
I honestly have a way around this...
Ending the Era of Weak Passwords: Never Type A Password Again (Never Memorize A Password Again)[^]
That's way too much info, but take a look at the first image in the article.
I build you a device that you simply connect to an available USB port.
You connect via bluetooth with whatever device you wish.
You send the text that you want typed into the field.
The device is seen as a keyboard so it works with every field.
No drivers are installed when you attached the USB device. none. Works on macOS, Linux, Windows with nothing installed because the computer it's attached to just thinks it is a keyboard.
Next, you just need an Android app that stores whatever common text you want to send over bluetooth to your device. Pick one, press send in Android app and it is typed in the target field.
Easy as pie!
If you want one of those, I will build it and send it to you free just so you can try it.
You'll never have to type a password again, if you don't want to.
I use my app / device on my work computer every day to type 64 character passwords for me.
This is way too long but I just thought it might all be a fun thing for you to try.
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It's interesting - I use strong passwords and a password store so most of the time I'm fine: open the store, find the site, press "copy", and paste it in. It's just this stupid login that gives problems...
It's not a bad idea you have there - I'd second the comment suggesting a Kickstarter campaign, you need to get it down to the size of a small USB flash drive: SanDisk Ultra Fit 64 GB USB Flash Drive[^] so it can be permanently inserted, I think. I'd also suggest that the Android / iOS / Windows phone or tablet uses a dedicated app (which encrypts over the Bluetooth link). Then it could really sell well, if you come up with a cool name! Passworks? iForgot?
The article got my +5 anyway!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Thanks for checking out my article and upvoting.
My app that currently works with the device (allows you to send via bluetooth which is encrypted) is available for free on Google Play : CYaPass @ Google Play[^]
My "clever" name is C'Ya Pass a play on (C-Y-A** Pass) and C'Ya (later) Passwords. 
Obviously, I'm an engineer, not a marketer. 
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Have you tried entering your credit card number?
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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I use the option to log in with a PIN. Much quicker!
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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And on certain apps commentsections people still argue that win10 is superior to win 7.
I thought it was pretty clear that it's classified as malware.
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WookieTab
??? 
I'd rather be phishing!
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It's a Chuwi tablet.
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." - James D. Miles
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Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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ah, yes, I remember Griff's tablet thingy.
I'd rather be phishing!
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I have a Win10 desktop: which has a specific desktop background.
I also have a WookieTab running Win10, with a totally different background.
I just ran OneNote on both of them, and it auto synchronised my notes.
I now have the WookieTab desktop background on both monitors of my desktop ...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Wookies are terrible at making up their minds what background they want to have. That's why Mickeysoft has decided to take care of that automatically and without making a big deal of it. Insiders call such features 'Appling the helpless'.
Welcome to the brave new world and one day you will finally come to love the Big Brother.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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CDP1802 wrote: Insiders Idiots who've never used Apple products call such features 'Appling the helpless'.
FTFY
In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem. ~ Ronald Reagan
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Spoken like a true fanboi.
Granted, the last Apple I ever wanted to have was the Apple ][, but the 'listen to your nanny' approach does not just work for everyone.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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CDP1802 wrote: Spoken like a true fanboi.
Because anybody who doesn't believe the exact same thing as you is a fanboi... 
CDP1802 wrote: but the 'listen to your nanny' approach does not just work for everyone.
Yet my Apple devices don't exhibit the same behaviors as Windows 10 that are frustrating OG and which you call "Appling". Who's the nanny?
In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem. ~ Ronald Reagan
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Mike Mullikin wrote: Because anybody who doesn't believe the exact same thing as you is a fanboi...
I believe that calling anyone who touches his holy cow an idiot who does not know what he is talking about is the typical behavior of a fanboi. So yes, believing anything else makes you most probably a fanboi.
Mike Mullikin wrote: Yet my Apple devices don't exhibit the same behaviors as Windows 10 that are frustrating OG and which you call "Appling". Who's the nanny?
That's nice for you and may it stay that way. I prefer to use operating systems that don't make any assumptions about my knowledge or intentions, do their job and otherwise stay out of my way.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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CDP1802 wrote: I believe that calling anyone who touches his holy cow an idiot who does not know what he is talking about is the typical behavior of a fanboi.
You seem to be vehemently protecting these "Insiders" you mentioned - does that make you a fanboi too?
CDP1802 wrote: I prefer to use operating systems that don't make any assumptions about my knowledge or intentions, do their job and otherwise stay out of my way.
So... you use Unix / Linux from a command line rather than a GUI.
Have fun.
In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem. ~ Ronald Reagan
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Mike Mullikin wrote: You seem to be vehemently protecting these "Insiders" you mentioned - does that make you a fanboi too?
Probably not. I did not call anybody a clueless idiot, remember?
Mike Mullikin wrote: So... you use Unix / Linux from a command line rather than a GUI.
Si. And CP/M, DOS if it must be and also now my own on a very old computer that never had an OS.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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CDP1802 wrote: I did not call anybody a clueless idiot, remember?
True... but you did claim that some group of tech Illuminati use the term "Appling the helpless". Don't throw the first stone then run away and act all innocent. 
CDP1802 wrote: Si. And CP/M, DOS if it must be and also now my own on a very old computer that never had an OS.
Again... good luck.
Out of curiosity... do you still drive the same car and wear the same clothes as you did in the 1970's?
In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem. ~ Ronald Reagan
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Ahh, trying to fanboi me over those things?
In the 1970s I had my first computer, but was still years away from any driver's license. The only surviving shirt from that time has 'RakSLw, Ft. Bliss, El Paso Tx' and a Hawk missile printed on it and spans a little around the shoulders, so it's now worn by my last teddy bear sitting in my bedroom. Is that ok?
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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