I am assuming ©Benny Hill from my experiences with 8, 8.1 & 10 of the prompt to sign in with your MS account. Very easy to bypass that one.
Windows 10 N0rtiness
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foxidrive
Retired Admin
Not obvious though. Gotta click stuff that isn't straightforward.
Something along the lines of:
Sign in with your MS account...
... don't have an account?, create one.
On the "create one" page at the bottom there is a "skip this step" or similar
Then you sign in with a local account.
Sign in with your MS account...
... don't have an account?, create one.
On the "create one" page at the bottom there is a "skip this step" or similar
Then you sign in with a local account.
You could add another user account ( admin ) switch users then delete the MS account.
One could do that, if an MS acct was created by acciscadently.
Anyhoo, I just did a Win8 install and.... I took picatures
1st Window:
Sign in to your Microsoft account...
... at the bottom of the window...
Don't have an account?
Create a new account <-- select this
2nd Window:
Create a Microsoft account <-- don't
... at the bottom of the window...
Sign in without a Microsoft account <-- Do this
foxidrive
Retired Admin
Windows 10 Update Uninstalls Desktop Software Without Informing Users
Microsoft's Windows 10 operating system may uninstall desktop programs from the computer after installation of the Fall update. I noticed the issue on one PC that I upgraded to Windows 10 Version 1511 but not on other machines. The affected PC had Speccy, a hardware information program, installed and Windows 10 notified me after the upgrade that the software had been removed from the system because of incompatibilities.
There was no indication beforehand that something like this would happen, and what made this rather puzzling was the fact that a newly downloaded copy of Speccy would install and run fine on the upgraded system.
An IT Director I know had this happen with ESET antivirus as well, on multiple computers. He says fixes have been rolled out for both TH2 and the antivirus software to prevent this from happening. Other reports mention CPU-Z, AMD's Catalyst Control Center, and CPUID as software that's being automatically uninstalled.
Norty indeed.
Microsoft's Windows 10 operating system may uninstall desktop programs from the computer after installation of the Fall update. I noticed the issue on one PC that I upgraded to Windows 10 Version 1511 but not on other machines. The affected PC had Speccy, a hardware information program, installed and Windows 10 notified me after the upgrade that the software had been removed from the system because of incompatibilities.
There was no indication beforehand that something like this would happen, and what made this rather puzzling was the fact that a newly downloaded copy of Speccy would install and run fine on the upgraded system.
An IT Director I know had this happen with ESET antivirus as well, on multiple computers. He says fixes have been rolled out for both TH2 and the antivirus software to prevent this from happening. Other reports mention CPU-Z, AMD's Catalyst Control Center, and CPUID as software that's being automatically uninstalled.
Norty indeed.
misi
Growing Little Guru
And you cannot opt for not to update.
How can you defend yourself against such unexpected uninstalls?
Turning off the Internet?
Block MS in your firewall?
What else?
Cumulative update for Windows 10 version 1511: November 24, 2015
The latest Insider release build is 10586.14
The latest Insider release build is 10586.14
misi
Growing Little Guru
How large is it, TeeEm?
misi
Growing Little Guru
OMG...My Windoze wanted to install it.
Clicked on later, it started to download W10...
Had to act very quickly to stop the download. (2.6GB)
Clicked on later, it started to download W10...
Had to act very quickly to stop the download. (2.6GB)
The last iso I downloaded was 3.04 GB
FYI: “Cumulative update for Windows 10 version 1511: November 24, 2015”
misi
Growing Little Guru
Meh... they want to cheat me!
They probably use files from the BT folder which is already on the comp.
foxidrive
Retired Admin
Linux??
misi
Growing Little Guru
It would be hard for an old bugger...
To be honest after mucking around with Win 10 for nearly a year I think I prefer Win 8.1 with Classic Shell than it.
But I am far more comfortable using and fiddling with my 14 year old XP OS. ( dual booted with Win 10.1511 )
But I am far more comfortable using and fiddling with my 14 year old XP OS. ( dual booted with Win 10.1511 )
misi
Growing Little Guru
TeeEm,
Have the GeForce Graphics card driver problems been fixed yet ? Not game to upgrade again after the first two times. Everything else worked fine after upgrading cept for the fact I keep getting a blue screen due to the Graphics driver problem.
misi
Growing Little Guru
Grrr...I should complain last week about my problem with W8.1...
My speakers suddenly died.
I suspected that the HDMI cable is loose again.
Disconnected it from the PC and the monitor.
Put it back, same problem. No sound at all.
After a couple of days I had a feeling that the Tuesday update caused it.
Wanted to uninstall all Tuesday's updates...but what a surprise...found some more updates.
OK. Installed them.
Sound is great!