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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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      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

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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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          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.

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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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