March 11 newsletter available (free!)

This week’s new AskWoody Plus newsletter is out; and for a while, you can read it for free, here. Here’s what’s inside issue 16.9.0: LANGALIST: Don’t put all your admin eggs in one basket! Losing administrator privileges to your PC will, among other things, leave you stranded — unable to make the repairs needed to restore full access….

Activate Windows’ hidden, master admin account

The column below was originally published in the May 14, 2015 , Windows Secrets newsletter. Today, it supplements a new column, scheduled for the March 11, 2019 AskWoody Plus Newsletter, focused on what to do if an error causes you to lose all admin privileges on your own PC. Click on over to read the new…

Exploring Windows’ Administrative Tools: Part 1

The column below was originally published in the May 10, 2012 Windows Secrets. Today, it supplements a new column scheduled for the March 11, 2019, AskWoody Plus Newsletter, focused on what to do if an error causes you to lose all admin privileges on your own PC. Click on over to read the new column!…

Using Windows’ powerful ‘Recovery Environment’

The column below was originally published in the June 23, 2016 Windows Secrets. Today, it supplements a new column, scheduled for the March 11, 2019 AskWoody Plus Newsletter, focused on what to do if an error causes you to lose all admin privileges on your own PC. Click on over to read the new column!…

How to hack a ‘back door’ into Win10, 8, and 7

The column below was originally published in the August 18, 2016, Windows Secrets newsletter. Today, it supplements a new column, scheduled for the March 11, 2019 AskWoody Plus Newsletter, focused on what to do if an error causes you to lose all admin privileges on your own PC. Click on over to read the new column!…

March 4 newsletter posted

This week’s new AskWoody Plus newsletter is out; and for a while, you can read it for free, here. Here’s what’s inside issue 16.8.0: LANGALIST: Microsoft’s massive, four-month-long series of Windows update screw-ups and outages has left some readers’ PCs in the weeds. See if you’re affected in “Windows Update errors cause OS-version problems.” Plus: Whole-disk encryption options…

This week’s newsletter posted

This week’s new AskWoody Plus newsletter is out; and for now you can read it for free, online. Here’s what’s inside issue 16.6.0: In the Langalist‘s “Should you trust a hard drive after a major error?,” I show you how to tell if a hard drive is still trustworthy after a significant event. In Woody’s Windows Watch, Woody Leonhard sends…

New Newsletter Posted

This week’s new AskWoody Plus newsletter is out; and for now you can read it for free, online. Here’s what inside issue 16.5.0: In the LangaList column, I cover “Three unusual, but interesting, reader queries“ In Patch Lady, Susan Bradley discusses “Still on Win7? Get over it, for security’s sake“ In Best Practices, Michael Lasky…