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I Take Back Every Nice Thing I Have Said About Windows 10
Microsoft wants you to use a Microsoft account, and on this Toshiba, there is no way to add another user account except through a Microsoft account. Microsoft should be demolished.
I've had several problems with customers who have taken the bait and installed W10.
1. A W10 upgrade that freezes and won't respond. No keyboard but mouse or vice versa. A couple of hard power button restarts seems to clear things up.
2. I had one customer who had all his files under c:/users changed to ownership SYSTEM and mode to "read only." That one was a real bitch. I finally reverted him to W7 Pro with an appropriate auto-activating OEM disk. See take ownership.zip.
3. On all customers W10s storebought or upgrade I install Classic Shell from classicshett.net. I also find IE11 in Program Files and pin it to the TaskBar. I unpin edge and make IE11 the default shell for those who use it.
You could've used the Control Panel, too, just like you always could.
ReplyDeletef you want to add a non-Microsoft Account login, there's a way but it wasn't obvious.
ReplyDeleteThat's what I've been saying since 1999.
ReplyDeleteMicrosoft delenda est.
I've had several problems with customers who have taken the bait and installed W10.
ReplyDelete1. A W10 upgrade that freezes and won't respond. No keyboard but mouse or vice versa. A couple of hard power button restarts seems to clear things up.
2. I had one customer who had all his files under c:/users changed to ownership SYSTEM and mode to "read only." That one was a real bitch. I finally reverted him to W7 Pro with an appropriate auto-activating OEM disk. See take ownership.zip.
3. On all customers W10s storebought or upgrade I install Classic Shell from classicshett.net. I also find IE11 in Program Files and pin it to the TaskBar. I unpin edge and make IE11 the default shell for those who use it.
JLW III
If you use Win+X to launch an elevated command prompt, these commands will create a local account called technician with password=password:
ReplyDeletenet user technician /add
net user technician password
net user technician /expires:never
wmic useraccount where "name='technician'" set PasswordExpires=FALSE
net localgroup Administrators technician /add