Monday, March 7, 2016

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.

Oh, how obvious!  Ctrl-Alt-Del.

5 comments:

  1. You could've used the Control Panel, too, just like you always could.

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  2. f you want to add a non-Microsoft Account login, there's a way but it wasn't obvious.

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  3. That's what I've been saying since 1999.

    Microsoft delenda est.

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  4. 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.

    JLW III

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  5. If you use Win+X to launch an elevated command prompt, these commands will create a local account called technician with password=password:

    net 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

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