My respects, but one cannot use such generalizations when conveying information which should be helping a large group of people such as those on this list. You have not used all computers with

Let’s not start with the fear mongering just to build support for one’s personal opinions. This feature is not “dangerous” as you’ve conveyed in your message below. The very same issue

Yes Sharon

Well, you might want to be careful of whom you’re insulting as I might have solutions you may need in the future. We all bring some sort of knowledge to these lists, so rather than putting walls

Steve, You and I are on the same page with regard to Fast Startup. The incident I encountered in 2015 under Windows 8 was enough to make me say, "never again." The increase in

Hi, I maintain computers for customers every day pretty much, and I see it with all screen readers. Just accept it, just because you like it, doesn’t mean there are not problems with it.

I think it more accurate to state all screen readers on “your” computer end up unstable. Unless you have a large sample by which you’ve conducted extensive scientific research, your claim will

Is that a web site book share?

Hi Brian, Corruption not only in the hibernation files, but any files that are stored into memory. I have seen Word documents corrupted by using fast startup. Consider if you leave Word open

Hi Jeremy, Now it sounds like you’re a bit of a fanboy of this horrible technology. Now take a look at this article:- https://www.windowscentral.com/how-disable-windows-10-fast-startup

Hi, The issue for me is that all screen readers simply become unstable, when woken up in this way. All the best Steve

Because many requests for information end up long and likely end in confusion, regarding creating a desktop shortcut for a webpage to be launched with a browser which is not the default browser...

Hi, I have seen it fowl up more than once, so I’ll keep it off thank you. All the best Steve

I wasn’t using it to do two programs. I set it up to do both in sequence: go to IE and then launch Bookshare. Learned it from one of Cathy Ann’s books. Worked great on old machine; Not so

oops. sorry guys. I should have read all of the thread before responding.

I will again recommend Password Safe, which is still 100% accessible, open source, and has both an Android and iOS clone named PasswdSafe. It can generate passwords, do auto fill in, taking you

"... the entire URL must be put in quotes or else the shortcut won’t work" JR, I find it to be not true. when I do it, the path to the executable, surrounded by quotes, a space, and followed by

You really don't have to use the webpage interface unless you need to update things in the valt that it keeps. You can do everything else through the browser extensions, including automatically

You cant use the same hotkey for two different programs

Would any of this have to do with the fact that when I create a hot key that opens IE and then Bookshare, the hot key discontinues working? This did not happen on my old win 10 machine, but only on