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  • R raddevus

    Our (work) icon is some generic thing and isn't even a shadow head icon so it isn't obvious and the term "user tile" is terribly generic too. And it is a terrible UI on that Start menu thing. And over all just terrible interface. Really terrible. It's esoteric information that if you know, you know. If you don't, you don't.

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    dandy72
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    It's not just esoteric information; some of the so-called Fluent Design ideas are so subtle some people can't see any difference between the very first release of Windows 10, and today's version.

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    • R raddevus

      I connect remotely to work via RDP and a win10 VM desktop. I'm supposed to reset my password. To do so I believe I have to send a Ctrl-Alt-Delete via on-screen keyboard. It has worked in the past. Now I get this cryptic informational warning / error... https://i.stack.imgur.com/Fy98E.png[^] To use the commands available when you press Ctrl+Alt+Del, click your user tile and choose an option. What!?! NOTE: This is a complaint, not a question. :laugh: I have no idea what a user tile is and I've been using windows of all versions since 1991. :rolleyes: EDIT Apparently a lot of people have no idea what the user tile is: User tile, Windows 10. - Microsoft Community[^] :| :|

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      Oleg A Lukin
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      Hmm, I always thought that pressing Ctrl+Alt+End on your physical keyboard is the designed way to sent Ctrl+Alt+Del to remote matchine via RDP

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      • R raddevus

        I connect remotely to work via RDP and a win10 VM desktop. I'm supposed to reset my password. To do so I believe I have to send a Ctrl-Alt-Delete via on-screen keyboard. It has worked in the past. Now I get this cryptic informational warning / error... https://i.stack.imgur.com/Fy98E.png[^] To use the commands available when you press Ctrl+Alt+Del, click your user tile and choose an option. What!?! NOTE: This is a complaint, not a question. :laugh: I have no idea what a user tile is and I've been using windows of all versions since 1991. :rolleyes: EDIT Apparently a lot of people have no idea what the user tile is: User tile, Windows 10. - Microsoft Community[^] :| :|

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        Lost User
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        Use the Ctrl+Alt+End combo to send Ctrl+Alt+Del over RDP

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        • R raddevus

          I connect remotely to work via RDP and a win10 VM desktop. I'm supposed to reset my password. To do so I believe I have to send a Ctrl-Alt-Delete via on-screen keyboard. It has worked in the past. Now I get this cryptic informational warning / error... https://i.stack.imgur.com/Fy98E.png[^] To use the commands available when you press Ctrl+Alt+Del, click your user tile and choose an option. What!?! NOTE: This is a complaint, not a question. :laugh: I have no idea what a user tile is and I've been using windows of all versions since 1991. :rolleyes: EDIT Apparently a lot of people have no idea what the user tile is: User tile, Windows 10. - Microsoft Community[^] :| :|

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          englebart
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          Try Ctrl+Alt+End instead. MS has a cheat sheet for RDP equivalent keyboard shortcuts.

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          • O Oleg A Lukin

            Hmm, I always thought that pressing Ctrl+Alt+End on your physical keyboard is the designed way to sent Ctrl+Alt+Del to remote matchine via RDP

            Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies. T.Jefferson

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            raddevus
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            Oleg A.Lukin wrote:

            pressing Ctrl+Alt+End on your physical keyboard

            Yeah, for some reason it wasn't working. I'm remoting from Linux to a Windows box via Remmina (RDP for Ubuntu) and it seems that I can actually send a Ctrl+Alt+Del from that program anyways. I had to reset the RDP session and then it started working again. thanks

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            • R raddevus

              I connect remotely to work via RDP and a win10 VM desktop. I'm supposed to reset my password. To do so I believe I have to send a Ctrl-Alt-Delete via on-screen keyboard. It has worked in the past. Now I get this cryptic informational warning / error... https://i.stack.imgur.com/Fy98E.png[^] To use the commands available when you press Ctrl+Alt+Del, click your user tile and choose an option. What!?! NOTE: This is a complaint, not a question. :laugh: I have no idea what a user tile is and I've been using windows of all versions since 1991. :rolleyes: EDIT Apparently a lot of people have no idea what the user tile is: User tile, Windows 10. - Microsoft Community[^] :| :|

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              MikeD 2
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              When in remote desktop I believe Ctrl-Alt-End substitues for a local Ctrl-Alt-Del Edit: beaten to it, couldn't be bothered to read past the end of the page :-O

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              • T TheGreatAndPowerfulOz

                The user tile is found by clicking on the 'Windows' button in the taskbar. This will show the "Start Menu". On the extreme left is a vertical list of icons, the first of which is the "user tile". Click on that and the change password option will show.

                #SupportHeForShe Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun

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                DerekT P
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                I use "Classic Shell" so never see the Win10 start menu. However intrigued by this thread I fired it up (Shift+click start for Classic Shell users) and found the "user tile". There are various options there but NOT to change password. There's a "change account settings" option but that just opens a Control panel screen that again doesn't provide access to a means to change password. Conversely, using Ctrl-Alt-Del brings up a menu that includes "Change a password" - that does exactly what I'd expect.

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                • D DerekT P

                  I use "Classic Shell" so never see the Win10 start menu. However intrigued by this thread I fired it up (Shift+click start for Classic Shell users) and found the "user tile". There are various options there but NOT to change password. There's a "change account settings" option but that just opens a Control panel screen that again doesn't provide access to a means to change password. Conversely, using Ctrl-Alt-Del brings up a menu that includes "Change a password" - that does exactly what I'd expect.

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                  TheGreatAndPowerfulOz
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                  Yes, you are correct. I was more just informing how to find / use the user tile. It does seem like a reasonable place to put the change password option though ...

                  #SupportHeForShe Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun

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                  • R raddevus

                    I connect remotely to work via RDP and a win10 VM desktop. I'm supposed to reset my password. To do so I believe I have to send a Ctrl-Alt-Delete via on-screen keyboard. It has worked in the past. Now I get this cryptic informational warning / error... https://i.stack.imgur.com/Fy98E.png[^] To use the commands available when you press Ctrl+Alt+Del, click your user tile and choose an option. What!?! NOTE: This is a complaint, not a question. :laugh: I have no idea what a user tile is and I've been using windows of all versions since 1991. :rolleyes: EDIT Apparently a lot of people have no idea what the user tile is: User tile, Windows 10. - Microsoft Community[^] :| :|

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                    Peter Adam
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                    Classic solution is press ctr+alt on the keyboard, then del on the on-screen keyboard on the remote machine. But at the rate they break things in W10 ...

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                    • P Peter Adam

                      Classic solution is press ctr+alt on the keyboard, then del on the on-screen keyboard on the remote machine. But at the rate they break things in W10 ...

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                      raddevus
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                      Peter Adam wrote:

                      press ctr+alt on the keyboard, then del on the on-screen keyboard

                      :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup: That works!! Thanks for the additional tip. I will add it to the arsenal of tricks. :)

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