I have a forgotten windows password nightmare. A video on the internet shows how to get around it using a Microsoft security flaw. Unfortunately they have fixed it! So now I am downloading a copy of windows into a USB and hoping to do a reinstall, but keeping the licence! First, I am downloading onto a USB, from …

https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/software-download/windows10

So, fine at first. Windows programmed my USB stick. Now I need to eject it. I try to do it properly from the taskbar and get …

So let’s look at the microsoft website and see what they say …

Great. They have problems they cannot fix themselves and want me to download some dubious third party software. No thanks. It’s better to shutdown, remove it, and reboot; thank you Microsoft!