So I am trying to figure out if this is a Windows 10 problem or a network problem. All of the Windows devices in my house (when I use location services) tell me I am in Chicago, IL when I am in an Eastern time zone. If I set up “set time zone” in Windows, it incorrectly puts me in Central time zone.
I have an AT&T fiber modem bridged and connected to an eero pro wifi mesh. The eero software is set to Eastern time zone via the app. When I do a geo ping for the IP address, it shows the correct location.
I have some Macs I can test the time setting with to see if it is truly a Windows issue, but I have not had any issues with location through any of my Apple devices that I can recall. Sigh.
You could use the Task Scheduler to set something like that up. In theory.
fdsaion
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Figure out where your external IP address assigned to you by AT&T is geolocated to
Sadly I tried that. The only actions I saw were to start a program rather than kill one. I guess I could make a batch file and run that.
Yes, that’s exactly what you’ll have to do.
You should set the guest VM OS to auto shutdown instead? The VM will probably not allow the Host idle to trigger, so any shutdown of the VM should be triggered from within the guest OS? I’m guessing here.
I did that and it is assigned to the correct location.
Your task would start the program taskkill.exe and pass as the command line arguments “/im voicemixer.exe”
With whatever the actual executable name is in place of voicemixer.exe
Ohhhhh huh. I’ll try that. Thank you!
Oh, one more thing. If the VM program is stubborn, you might have to include the “/f” flag in the arguments to force-kill the process.
fdsaion
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Missed that, though it probably is the wrong branch to bark up anyway, since geolocation stuff generally goes GPS (don’t have) > Wifi in area > Cell towers in area (don’t have) > IP address.
So MS’s geolocation service that you have no control over is getting weird results for the area you’re in which you can’t really do anything about
My wife’s computer (an HP) has decided to blue screen on boot. It is throwing out a KMODE exception not handled error. She saw an automatic update for Skype yesterday. My simplistic thought was to uninstall Skype, but I cannot even get into safe mode.
I have got to the Windows recovery screen and have tried these things:
- Uninstall feature update: Windows says it cannot uninstall the latest feature update
- Uninstall quality update. Windows uninstalled it but problem still remains
- Safe mode with networking. Blue screens before I can type in password
- Safe mode without networking. Blue screen before I can type in the password
- Safe mode with command prompt: Blue screen before I can type in the password
Do I need to make some sort of boot thing on a USB now?
You can try, certainly - there’s a Microsoft tool to create one - but that sounds like a dead laptop to me. Good luck!
I was able to get a command prompt from the Windows recovery options. I tried SFC /scannow to verify and repair system files. It scanned and then it couldn’t do it. I suspect there may have been an interrupted Windows update the has left the system in a hosed state.
I ran into this problem not too long ago with my work laptop. I used System Restore to a point before the update attempt, and that worked.
I tried that from Windows restore options but there are no system restore points available.
This sounds like a “reinstall Windows” issue.
Yep. I am expecting to nuke from orbit.
It is, after all, the only way to be sure.
Nesrie
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You should be able to save important stuff even with a reinstall at least since presumably the drive is fine.
