In Windows 10 you can create a USB stick that allows you to log in and reset your password, in case you forget it, or something else happens.

The procedure is very simple: go to the Control Panel, then User Accounts, and you will find this mask:

in which just click "Create a password reset disk" to access the relative wizard, just remember to have an empty USB key at hand and remember the current password. The nice thing is that this USB stick will work even if you have changed and forgotten it (or an attacker has done the same).

 The problem is when it happens that you click the "Create a password reset disk" link and NOTHING! NOTHING HAPPENS !!

The reason is that the wizard starts up and crashes into a strange state where you don't see it, but it's stuck. Here's what you can do:

Press ALT + TAB together and then release TAB while continuing to press ALT. You should see the list of open programs, as in the image below:

Still holding down the ALT key, with the mouse you have to click on the closing "X" of the password reset unit creation wizard, which you see indicated by the red arrow in the previous image.

Close, with the same method, also any error messages that may appear, relating to the same wizard.

At this point you should be able to go back to the Control Panel - User Accounts and start the wizard correctly.

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In the Klondike Lost Adventure facebook game, there is a bonus, consisting in a mine sweeper game, named Leontius' Mines, that make you get a lot of interesting items, for the game.

Here are some hints about solving it (in a random order). Enjoy.

I will assume that you are NOT a beginner, I'll assume that you are familiar with the simple concept that: if you have TWO mines uncovered near (close to) a "number 2" then you can click every other covered cell near (close to) "that 2"

This particular game, gives you a "free 1st mine" bonus. That is: the very 1st mine you uncover does NOT kick you out of the game.

One example very simple

Youtube video of one solved

Starting

The first thing I'd like to suggest, is to start with a middle border cell:

You can get one out of three results: a mine, an 1 or another number.

1) If yopu get "another number" then change completely and choose another "middle border cell" to start from.

2) If you get a mine, then check for the TWO cells immediately next to it, along the border, until you uncover a "1" . Try ONLY two cells near that mine

I leave here a short note, for reference.

I had trouble running the following Windows 7 Professional updates:

KB4516065 + KB4524752 + KB4535102 + optional KB4516048

This guide, originally written for Teslacrypt, has proved to be of some use to other ransomware as well, for example AVADDON (.avdn)

I add the following information, specific to the AVADDON virus:

• There is NO way to recover files, given the methods used to encrypt them (any updates will be written in this same article)
• DO NOT PAY, because it appears that the criminals DO NOT give the unlock code, it seems that it really does not exist and the criminals are NOT found in any way
• News 10th June 2023: found and tested this EMISOFT AVADDON DECRYPTER. It works, when you start let it look for the key for a "long" time (maybe more than 10 minutes)

Ransomware Infection

Let's start by establishing how you got the ransomware. The most known and used infection mechanism is the sending of a false email in which, in some way, you are invited to click on an attachment. And there are many ways to hide malicious code in an attachment, one of them is to send a zipped file which contains inside a js file (javascript) having the same name. This way it runs right away, and you're already screwed!