Windows 11 24H2 Update stops or prevents sharing

This topic hasn’t been setup for the beginner like I normally do. I apologize. If you don’t understand how to do what I am asking or need more detailed steps, you can use DuckDuckGo to search them out.

If you have a peer to peer (P2P) network, the Windows 11 24H2 update released October 2024 through Feb 2025 really caused issues. This is regardless of it it was installed on the computer doing the sharing or the computer trying to access a share. NAS shares, shared printers, shared drives and folder just quit and wouldn’t work correctly. The errors are all different.

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2024 Halloween Costume Ideas

If you followed Ward Computers on Socialist Media through October, you have seen these ideas. Don’t forget you can search the keyword “Halloween” on the website to find out our ideas from the past. Well, let’s get to this years Office Safe Costume ideas.

Blood Sucking Attorney. Dress in business suit, and carry a brief case. Wear vampire makeup and fake vampire teeth. Pass out business cards that say “B. Sucking, Attorney-at-Law.”

Table for One. Use cardboard or other material to make a round table that will fit over your head and rest on your shoulders. Cover with a red checked tablecloth. Make your head into a centerpiece with silk flowers. Put play dishes and play food on the table, and add accessories (candle, salt and pepper shakers, menu, etc.). Wrap a second table cloth around your body.

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Preventing Windows Search Box from using Internet results

The Windows 10 and 11 search box, is an “feature”. When Microsoft took away the Windows 7 way of browsing to a program or file, this is what was hoisted upon users.

When I need to run a program, navigate to the “Settings” menu or locate a file, I click on the search box and start typing the name of what I’m looking for. If you turned it off the taskbar, you just need to click on the Windows icon and start typing.

What’s really annoying is the search box will also pull results from Bings internet search (barf) and give you those “choices”.

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Bypass / Remove the Windows Lock Screen

When your computer is locked (or first boots), by default, Windows 10 & 11 show you a lock screen with the time, a wallpaper and maybe (if you allow) some notifications. If you use Windows Hello facial or fingerprint recognition, you can log in by staring at the screen or putting one of your fingers on the scanner.

If you use a password or PIN, you have to click once to dismiss the lock screen before the OS will allow you to enter your credentials.

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