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"Resolution: To resolve the issue, do not create a user account contains the string "user" on the computer." That's not really a resolution so much as a worka
by skykooler 10y ago
"Resolution:
To resolve the issue, do not create a user account contains the string "user" on the computer."
That's not really a resolution so much as a workaround.
- pmiller2 10y agoYeah, seriously. I love how their workaround is "don't do that," too.
- kazinator 10y agoIt's actually, "do not ... have done that".
- schwarrrtz 10y agoGo back in time and subtly influence your past behaviour to avoid having created an account where the username contains the word 'user'. Alternatively, upgrade to Windows 12.
- PawelDecowski 10y agoSeriously. How should I have known not to name my Windows account trousersnake?
- deleted 10y ago[deleted]
- xufi 10y agoVery idiot proof indeed
- agumonkey 10y agoaka the doctor's cure.
- beambot 10y agoNext up: it's a feature, not a bug.
- sudojudo 10y agoWindows 10 already says this, but with a different definition of bug.
- kazinator 10y agoIf the issue is happening, you cannot resolve it by not creating an account which contains the string "user". You must probably delete the account which contains "user". That could be substantially inconvenient compared to going back in time and telling your former self not to create it.
- avail 10y agoRenaming an user account on Windows systems isn't that complicated.
- JustSomeNobody 10y agoIn theory. In practice, probably not. Windows has a habit of leaving little droplets of history all over that come back to bite. Best to just wipe and reinstall.
- avail 10y agoWindows itself? Not really. Third party applications that hard code the path? More likely.
- motti 10y agoWindows itself leaves the c:\users\<username> path as it was first set, even if you rename the username.
- Kurimo 10y agoI can confirm this. Recently renamed a user as I handed off an old PC to my wife. The old directory is still there but now all the files within it are inaccessible. Caused a lot of issues!
- ygra 10y agoThis shouldn't happen. The directory is still there, but it also should still be your profile directory. Changing a user name shouldn't change the SID and make your files inaccessible.
- c3534l 10y agoCause of bug: user error. Solution: GFYS
- NetStrikeForce 10y agoCause of bug: "We don't say that word" error. Solution: Don't say that word.
- Piskvorrr 10y agoWhat word? The word that the Knights of Ni cannot stand to hear!
- nathancahill 10y ago"Don't hold it like that"
- markokrajnc 10y agoNow Microsoft must demonstrate how other operating systems have the same problem "in a certain way"... :-)
- chris_wot 10y agoWouldn't be the first time: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/168702 https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/168702
- Tempest1981 10y agoKeep moving that mouse... Method 2: Move Your Mouse Pointer If you move your mouse pointer continuously while the data is being returned to Microsoft Excel, the query may not fail. Do not stop moving the mouse until all the data has been returned to Microsoft Excel.
- mastazi 10y agoYou forgot the best part: NOTE: Depending on your query, it may take several minutes to return the results of your query to the worksheet.
- susam 10y agoAt least, this KB article correctly puts the workarounds under the "Workaround" heading. However in the KB article linked to by this post, a workaround is put under the "Resolution" heading.
- herbst 10y agoAs most technet "solutions" have something todo with reinstalling the whole system, this seems a pretty good "solution" to me.
- yAnonymous 10y agoThe "solution" is deleting the user and migrating all their stuff to another account. That's not really better than a re-install.
- andremendes 10y ago> do not create a user account contains the string "user" on the computer. Is this sentence correct? Maybe a "that" is missing after "account", or shouldn't it be "containing" instead of "contains"? I'm asking because English is not my native tongue.
- batiudrami 10y agoYes - both your suggestions are grammatically correct; the original is not.
- chrismbarr 10y agoYou are correct, it seems to be missing a word. I am a native English speaker and I missed that the first time I read it!
- ef4 10y agoYou are correct. I suspect most native speakers miss this mistake if they're reading quickly. I did. Our brains fill in the missing word and pretend it was present.
- JustSomeNobody 10y agoCorrect. I didn't catch it until it was pointed out.
- _asummers 10y agoEnglish speakers often omit the word "that" when speaking. When I was learning Spanish, the subjunctive tense always felt strange to use. "I wish you'd do the dishes" vs "I wish that you'd do the dishes" sort of thing. This is clearly a different case but the same result of skipping the word "that" when it should really be there.
- hyperpape 10y agoI'm not the one who downvoted you, btw, but these are different cases. "I wish you'd do the dishes" sounds fine to most native English speakers, except those who are extremely fussy about language. Leaving out "that" in this sentence will sound wrong to most native speakers (though we can easily gloss over it when reading).
- wpietri 10y agoThat sucks for people with names like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hauser https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hauser https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krauser https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krauser https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauser_%28disambiguation%29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauser_%28disambiguation%29
- lake99 10y agoAlso sucks for people who have legitimate reasons to use such names on shared computers. An MRI might have 3 login accounts: MRIdeveloper, MRItechnician, MRIuser.
- _kst_ 10y agoDoes Windows accept non-ASCII characters in account names? If so, you could use MRIüser. 8-)}
- nommm-nommm 10y agoEspecially annoying in a corporate user environment where user names are automatically generated following a standard format. "We upgraded to Windows 8 so now we have to rename some of our employee accounts."
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- Animats 10y agoAnd that's Microsoft saying this, officially. It's not some comment on Stack Overflow. So does DFPCommon.dl do, anyway? Does it have something to do with "telemetry", the built-in spyware in Windows 10?
- ralish 10y agoIt appears to be a support library for dfp.exe, which is the "Disk Footprint Tool". I never knew it existed until now, but it seems to be a potentially quite handy utility with a purpose similar to tools like WinDirStat (but CLI only?). So to answer your question, no, it's not part of the telemetry infrastructure. And I'll add that calling that infrastructure "spyware" is a simplistic analysis of what's a complex issue. I say that as someone who goes to great pains to turn off as much telemetry as I can across almost all applications I use.
- mixedCase 10y agoI have a personal line that works for me to determine wether something is spyware or not: Do I have a universal toggle to shut off all "telemetry" data? If not, then it's spyware. If it spies on me making it difficult or impossible for me to disable the spying, then what really makes it any different from traditional malicious spyware other than the intention? (if there's any difference to begin with)
- jimmaswell 10y agoOddly, I've used the username "user" on multiple windows 8 installations and I've never had this happen.