MS Profile Issue - How do I log in and.. what went wrong?
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Argh. So the date was NOT set, but could not figure out how to set it. I know I did it last time, but it didn't seem obvious how to do so it. (said run setup, which presumably was BIOS setup...
MS Profile Issue - How do I log in and.. what went wrong?
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My opinions...
Windows 11 is a personal choice. I haven't upgraded any of my machines yet. The alarms about Windows 10 support ending soon are not very alarming for home users, much more so for...
MS Profile Issue - How do I log in and.. what went wrong?
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Could the date be causing a problem for reset? I noticed that the back up was dated 2022. IDuring Windows reset attempt
-backup paused at 2:18 for some reason, for several minutes. I walked...
MS Profile Issue - How do I log in and.. what went wrong?
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Hmm...
PC was purchased Nov 2020. But it sat in its box til 2023. It has i5-10400 and 16GB RAM. I would not have chosen a 128 GB SSD but that was the only option. I figured SSD better than non...
MS Profile Issue - How do I log in and.. what went wrong?
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Assuming there's nothing on the SSD you need to save I would simply plug a Windows install USB into your machine, boot from that and install Windows from scratch.
Windows Installation Media
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MS Profile Issue - How do I log in and.. what went wrong?
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Battery is a standard coin battery this is how to replace it the invalid date/time usually occurs when the CMOS battery is bad as that is where the dte/time are stored
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MS Profile Issue - How do I log in and.. what went wrong?
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So, the date / time still aren't set?
Try F12 or advanced startup options to access bios / euif
MS Profile Issue - How do I log in and.. what went wrong?
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MS Profile Issue - How do I log in and.. what went wrong?
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128GB isn't very big for your OS drive. I haven't priced them recently, but pre-dotard the prices had come down a lot. You could try to just clone the drive over to a bigger SSD. Unfortunately, a...
MS Profile Issue - How do I log in and.. what went wrong?
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OK, so I finally went ahead and pulled the unit out from under my desk, opened it, and swapped out the battery.
But it did not solve the problem. I got to Windows login page, entered my pin...
MS Profile Issue - How do I log in and.. what went wrong?
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Hi
My main computer is a Dell 3880 running Windows 11. It's an old machine, but has relatively few miles on it... I bought it years ago and it was in its original box for like 2-3 years lol.
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The date and time not set means your BIOS battery has failed replace that before doing more. Should ne a big coin battery on the motherboard.
MS Profile Issue - How do I log in and.. what went wrong?
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In theory, the windows key should be saved in the BIOS.
MS Profile Issue - How do I log in and.. what went wrong?
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You might try going back into the BIOS to verify if the time synced or is still wrong. If needed set the time manually.
I'd probably just buy a larger SSD and do a clean OS install on that.
MS Profile Issue - How do I log in and.. what went wrong?
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UPDATE: Replying on the the PC in question.
After trying multiple ways to reset (or just plain log in) and failing... finally opted for the Factory Install using the original Windows. So... I'm...
MS Profile Issue - How do I log in and.. what went wrong?
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It's possible for the date being wrong to cause all sorts of issues.
I've seen inaccurate time cause lots of issues. Beyond the issues it will cause connecting to the internet, drives and other...
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Thank you.
Unforrtunately, this did not work as expected. There is no option for Startup Repair that I can see. It DID say to run Startup because "date and time not set" but there was no...
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Tried the SHIFT while restarting and... got only one option!! LOLOL
MS Profile Issue - How do I log in and.. what went wrong?
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Found this...
MS Profile Issue - How do I log in and.. what went wrong?
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When the system time is wrong, it causes issues with security certificates used to encrypt info sent to/from the internet. Which causes lots of issues. Sometimes it will even cause problems...
