If he does it again and comes seeking help, tell him "No" . If he manages to break it, don't whatever you do, buy him a new one. 
Fiddling Son No 2 Meddled With Lappy....
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Thanks!
Yeah, I've told him that already.
We don't have to money anyway to replace it.
I've told him that laptop has to last him through school. Don't think he can visualise a few years ahead. That got him wide-eyed!
Think he understands now.
Yeah, I've told him that already.
We don't have to money anyway to replace it.
I've told him that laptop has to last him through school. Don't think he can visualise a few years ahead. That got him wide-eyed!
Think he understands now.
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you can do pretty much anything you can do in the GUI part of windows system wise with the correct cmd command... it's not a DOS prompt, nor has been for a good many years, but I feel you knew that already.
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He's been at it again... and this time it's a good 'un!
I set the system up without a Microsoft account.
However, now he has managed to get it to boot up with a different email address showing in log-in box.
Well, I say different, but it's the same prefix, but it ends "@outlook.com", which his email address does not.
How the heck does he change this?
The good news is he is locked out of the laptop while this is going on...
I set the system up without a Microsoft account.
However, now he has managed to get it to boot up with a different email address showing in log-in box.
Well, I say different, but it's the same prefix, but it ends "@outlook.com", which his email address does not.
How the heck does he change this?
The good news is he is locked out of the laptop while this is going on...
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A [email protected] or .co.uk will map to an [email protected] account, but I feel this is not the issue here?
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No, I set it up with a gmail address...
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Yeah, I did.
It seems you can't keep a fiddle away from his toy....
The onus is on him now.
If he wants to go on his laptop, he has to find a fix.
Let's see how long it's out of action for....
It seems you can't keep a fiddle away from his toy....
The onus is on him now.
If he wants to go on his laptop, he has to find a fix.
Let's see how long it's out of action for....
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He is very inquisitive when it comes to IT and has been noted as "Gifted and Talented" at school.
But as I have said before, he is not clever enough to know how to undo any situations he gets into!
Perhaps I will set him a challenge: We will race each other to a solution and if he gets there first, I will buy him a little computer-related gift.
But as I have said before, he is not clever enough to know how to undo any situations he gets into!
Perhaps I will set him a challenge: We will race each other to a solution and if he gets there first, I will buy him a little computer-related gift.
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Argh.....
That's the really stupid thing on my part.
There is no other log-in, only his. Stupidly, I didn't set up one.
I know, I know, I should have. But I didn't.
And now I'm paying the price....
That's the really stupid thing on my part.
There is no other log-in, only his. Stupidly, I didn't set up one.
I know, I know, I should have. But I didn't.
And now I'm paying the price....
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Hmm potentially rewarding son for "bad" behaviour...... not good! [/end patronising parenting lesson]
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Fking right how about 'if you fck it up again you're not having it for a week'
I used to build servers and puters in my room on my own as a kid...if i fcked it up i had to rebuild it myself end of.
My dad would of barely known how to switch the box of bits on let alone fire up fdisk
I used to build servers and puters in my room on my own as a kid...if i fcked it up i had to rebuild it myself end of.
My dad would of barely known how to switch the box of bits on let alone fire up fdisk
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He's had a jolly good talking to now.
He understands he cannot just mess about without understanding the consequences.
Spent almost 9 hours in total looking for a solution then spoke to Microsoft in the US who said I had to start again.
I have had to effectively reinstall the OS and while I was at it I put an admin account on it. I am Admin, he has a secondary child account.
So when he wants to make any changes, it needs my password and he has to come to me, so then I know what's going on.
The biggest advantage is if he ever f's up again, I can recover stuff through the Admin a/c.
But I might not tell him that.
He understands he cannot just mess about without understanding the consequences.
Spent almost 9 hours in total looking for a solution then spoke to Microsoft in the US who said I had to start again.
I have had to effectively reinstall the OS and while I was at it I put an admin account on it. I am Admin, he has a secondary child account.
So when he wants to make any changes, it needs my password and he has to come to me, so then I know what's going on.
The biggest advantage is if he ever f's up again, I can recover stuff through the Admin a/c.
But I might not tell him that.
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