2nd Admin user on Laptop

[jagmanx]

I appreciate most items are available on Tablet/Smartphone..

But I suspect many rely on a Laptop for "Serious Data"

The backup situation has been dealt with so no more on that.

However my Windows (I hear laughing from Trev) desktop icons disappeared and minimised apps simply closed.
So the laptop was simply almost unusable...

Solution
1 Set up another admin user maybe called backup or reserve etc
2 Logon as that user and do some file copying from "Your Main account"
3 Delete that account and also the files and the root folder with your name
4 Re-create the main user and login.

You may have to setup up email again but not if you have an email client with Data to copy back
I use google drive so set that up again login and all the Google drive files get copied back perfectly

AS you may recall I keep little real data on my laptop and Google drive does very nicely for Spreadsheets etc
ALL my photos & videos are on 2 different backup drives anyway

Robert is a close older relative !

 

[trevskoda]

I appreciate most items are available on Tablet/Smartphone..

But I suspect many rely on a Laptop for "Serious Data"

The backup situation has been dealt with so no more on that.

However my Windows (I hear laughing from Trev) desktop icons disappeared and minimised apps simply closed.
So the laptop was simply almost unusable...

Solution
1 Set up another admin user maybe called backup or reserve etc
2 Logon as that user and do some file copying from "Your Main account"
3 Delete that account and also the files and the root folder with your name
4 Re-create the main user and login.

You may have to setup up email again but not if you have an email client with Data to copy back
I use google drive so set that up again login and all the Google drive files get copied back perfectly

AS you may recall I keep little real data on my laptop and Google drive does very nicely for Spreadsheets etc
ALL my photos & videos are on 2 different backup drives anyway

Robert is a close older relative !

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You can back up the whole pc on pen drive with linux,then just plug in and reboot back as before,hope you are sorted now.

 

[jagmanx]

Yes thanks Trev

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You can back up the whole pc on pen drive with linux,then just plug in and reboot back as before,hope you are sorted now.

All sorted...and not as "risky" as a full restore.

Google Drive files restored within 10mins
Email client restore 1 min
Other minor data restore 5 min

Chrome has all my weblinks etc restored automatically when I login to Chrome (2or3 mins)

At some stage I will do a full windows refresh as this works (have used it before) and is a good cleanup routine.

Will do it in New year here where I have a fast fibre link and LAN/USB connection for Laptop

 

[GeoffL]

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You can back up the whole pc on pen drive with linux,then just plug in and reboot back as before,hope you are sorted now.

Nice thing about Linux is that you can even use it create a backup image of a Windows NTFS partition. dd works wonders. It's handy to have Puppy Linux (or another lightweight, all on a USB stick distro) on a pen drive to help sort out 'terminal' Windows problems!

 

[Borders2]

No doubt all true Trevb but only if you KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING,

I find linux utterly infuriating and I have tinkered with it for over 15 years and my issue is this. It seems to me that the developers refuse to make it easy. Thats Windows remit they seem to think and we are the nerds so its going to be the command line that holy of holies.

I cannt count the number of times it has taken me hours of reading forums or asking questions that get treated with contempt to achieve something I can do in Windows in a blink. That there is the issue for me and if it were straightforward I would dump MS in a second. But sadly its far from so.

B2

 

[alwaysared]

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You can back up the whole pc on pen drive with linux,then just plug in and reboot back as before,hope you are sorted now.

Do you mean like this?

Regards,
Del