A Microsoft OneNote Mystery (for me)

I am really getting into Microsoft OneNote, included with Microsoft office 365. It is very handy and since I have the subscription for office, it is (almost) free for me.

There is a free version of OneNote, but the Office version seems to have more options.

I have quite a few Notebooks and I can access them from anywhere by logging into my Office account on the web.

OneNote can be enhanced with Macros. I wanted to alphabetize my notebooks and a Macro from Onetastic made it easy to sort all my notebooks. Since the notebooks are sorted in Alphabetical order, it’s easy to located the one I want.

At first I kept getting an error when I tried to sort:



I couldn’t find anyone else with this problem, so just poked around and decided to add back some notebooks I had removed, and now the sort worked.

However, I never seem to leave well enough alone and the sort has stopped working since I closed some Notebooks. Never mind, I have a work-around for sorting.

But the biggest mystery for OneNote was found when I was ‘sharing’ Notebooks on OneDrive. When I went to ‘File’, Invite People to this notebook, there was an option to ‘Can view’ with an email account I no longer use and haven’t used for a long time.



I couldn’t find those Parent folders and I couldn't remove them. This was making me crazy!

Finally,  I went to OneDrive and poked around. Then I found it.







I clicked stop sharing, and now the mysterious Parent folders is gone.

But the mystery remains, how did they get there in the first place? Windows 10 is making me investigate stuff and I suppose that’s good. But I still wonder about why and how that email address was there.

I suspect this was some kind of setting migrated when I upgraded Windows 8.1 to Windows 10. Still I haven’t used that email address since before I got this computer, so that’s the real mystery for me.

My Windows 10 Is Sleepy

I have no idea what happened to make Windows go to sleep so fast, but a few days ago, if I left my computer alone for more than two minutes, it went to sleep. Not only that when I moved the mouse or touched the touch pad to wake Windows, it went to the sign in screen. Windows didn’t do this before!

I don’t have any idea what caused all these changes. I did turn on Windows Spotlight, but that shouldn’t have caused Windows to get so sleepy or go to the sign in screen, should it?

These settings would be good if I was in a location like an office or any place with a lot of other people, but I am retired and the only people here besides me are close family members who never have bothered my computers.

Perhaps one of those sneaky Windows 10 updates made those changes, I have hread where an update has caused settings changes for other folks, but until now never happened to me.

So I started changing my settings back to the way it was. At leaset I tried. Simple matter to set it back to stop the sign in screen from popping up after waking. I just went to Settings/Accounts/Sign-in Options and changed it to Never.



Then the fun started (not).

I went to Settings/System/Power Options and changed everything to Never.



That should take care of things! But it didn’t. Every time I left my computer for more than two minutes, it went to sleep.

So I went to the Control Panel and chose Power Options there.



It made no difference. I changed the power plans, and Windows still went to sleep after two minutes.

I searched with Google and found quite a few other folks were also having the same problem with a sleepy Windows 10. There were a lot of answers that worked for some folks (not me!). Even that Registry hack didn’t work, although it did for some folks.

Then I read someone finally had to call Microsoft and the tech had to come into his computer and fix it. Now if it could be fixed by a tech, I decided I could fix it as well. I dug into those settings and finally found what I needed.

I went back to the Control Panel/Power Options and checked Change Advanced Power Settings.



There it was.



I clicked ‘Change Settings that are currently not available’.



Now I could edit the System unattended sleep timeout by clicking the minutes shown.



Now all is as it was before what ever I did to mess it up or a Windows update that changed my settings.

Don't know why it took me so long to figure it out!

Reset Windows 10

After removing the unusable Windows Insider from my HP,  I upgraded Windows 7 to Windows 10.

The Windows 10 upgrade on my HP went mostly ok, but after a while it became apparent all was NOT ok.

It is oh so slow. It froze a lot requiring a hard reboot. I do mean a LOT!

Finally, I decided to do a Reset, which means I will need to reinstall programs.
It is now resetting, hopefully this will work.





It took awhile, but I finally got the logon screen. Then all I was getting was  'Welcome' and that ever going circle.

Finally after about 10 minutes the Welcome left and now there was a black screen with a cursor that moves with the mouse, but nothing else.

Eventually Windows loaded, just about the time I thought it was hosed.

It still seemed slow, but it wasn't freezing any more. Files were all intact, and there was an html file on my desktop, containing a list of all the programs that had been removed. The majority of the listings had a hyperlink to the page for the removed program, making it easier to download the program if I wished. (That was cool!)

After downloading and installing the last big update for Windows, this computer sings!

I installed my must have programs and made a backup using Macrium Reflect. It only took 11.34 minutes!

A clean computer is a joy!

Testing Windows 10 Insider is Now Over For Me

What happened:

Using my HP install of Windows 10 Insider, I updated to Build 11099.

This didn't go too well, as my video driver reversed to a plug and play generic. This made the PC virtually unusable for me as I watch a lot of videos. Installing the video driver from Intel caused a blue screen that Windows tried to fix, failed and then did a system restore.

When it finally completed, everything was working OK, and still on Build
11099.

This was the first time I had any problem since the first release on Windows 10 Insider.

Build 11102

The latest Insider build did not recognize my graphics card (again). So I
installed the driver (again!) and Windows had a hissy fit.

When I rebooted, I got a blue screen with 'Your PC ran into a problem and
needs to restart. We are now collecting some info and then we'll restart for
you.'

Then I got diagnosing, followed by repairing and another blue screen with
the same message, 'Your PC ran into a problem and needs to restart. We are
now collecting some info and then we'll restart for you.'

Same thing, diagnosing, repairing and then the options to start Windows,
restore, blah blah (I don't remember all of it).

I clicked 'Login to Windows' and all was good.

Windows 10 Insider is starting to be a pain. True, this is an older computer,
but it has Intel graphics, so why can't it be recognized? I am guessing MS thought I could fix it myself.

Build 14251

This time the display was even worse than the last two times.

I installed the Graphics driver. This time the screen didn't go black when it restarted.

Restarted,blue screen with the same message as before. Again, a blue screen.

Preparing Automatic Repair. Diagnosing your PC. Automatic Repair

Your PC did not start correctly
Press restart to restart your PC, which can sometimes fix the problem. You can also press' Advanced options' to try other options to repair your PC.

I pressed Advanced Options and got 4 choices.

Continue
Exit and continue to Windows 10
Use another operating system
Continue with another installed version of Windows
Troubleshoot: Reset your PC or see advanced options.
Turn off your PC.

I chose Continue. Again blue screen.

Same thing. But I did get the option to select my OS (this is a dual boot)
Selected Windows 10.

Finally success! Or at least it seems to be booting.
Got a screen for Windows Assessment tool, evaluating the Graphics tool, but it disappeared before I could read it all.

It finally booted to Windows 10.

The following day when I turned on the computer, it blue screened again. But after 'fixing', it finally loaded Windows. (I am also getting the 'Error in WSClient.dll Missing entry:RefreshBannedApplist. This seems to be happening to a lot of folks.)
I suspect this install for Windows Insider will soon be more than I want to deal with again, but for now I will wait and see what happens.

Every time I turn on the computer I get the same scenario (blue screen, over and over again.)I tried to use the troubleshooting option to reset the PC, but it would not accept the password. I know the password was correct, because I used it to log in to my Microsoft account on another computer and it worked with no problem.

Finally, I used the option to select another OS and I booted to Windows 7.

More fun (not).

Windows update would not work.

I used Microsoft's Fixit to fix that problem.

I removed the Windows 10 partition (after using MSCONFIG to remove the Windows 10 Insider from the boot menu) and resized the Windows 7 partition to include the old partition that contained Windows 10 insider.

I will update this computer to Windows 10.  When and if it will no longer work well because of the video driver issue, I may just be done with Windows.