URGENT Help Please

[Pro Avia 4]

9 hours ago, vc10man said:

No, I did not as I give enough access to Microsoft to flog me their 'word-not-allowed'..MS does not respect privacy!

Thanks all the same for your suggestion..

In closing this post, to all who tried to help with various tips/suggestions, etc, I managed to get it all sorted by myself, AND in doing so, successfully managed to install the very  latest Realtek driver which started this whole shebang mess from Microsoft.

MODS: Please feel free to close this and the other thread re:Realtek

 

I certainly agree with you about them having too much of our info. But I did use an MS account when upgrading from Win7 to Win10 as MS then stores my activation key in their system. I then created a second computer sign in that isn't tied to an MS account. I signed out of the MS linked account and use the second sign in for daily use. If I ever need to access the activation key for any reason (reinstallation or an activation error), I can sign in to the MS account.

[vc10man 732]

3 hours ago, Pro Avia said:

I then created a second computer sign in that isn't tied to an MS account.

E'rr, e'rmm, and just how did you this? Surely, if you created a 2nd sign-in, it must have been signing-in to a Microsoft account, otherwise what are you signing-in to? Please elaborate because this is an interesting tip.

[Pro Avia 4]

Similar to this: 

https://www.digitalcitizen.life/create-local-non-microsoft-account-windows

I know it works with Win 10 Pro - not sure about Win 10 Home

Edited April 17, 2020 by Pro Avia

[vc10man 732]

7 hours ago, Pro Avia said:

Similar to this: 

https://www.digitalcitizen.life/create-local-non-microsoft-account-windows

I know it works with Win 10 Pro - not sure about Win 10 Home

Thanks for that link, Gene. Appreciated. Mine is Pro. I was looking at my Settings yesterday, and it seems that my current Pro Licence Key is a digital Licence linked to my MS Account. I want to go your way. Am currently pruning Windows 10 getting rid of all the intrusions into my privacy, getting rid of that stupid Cortana, etc, etc. This was not a major OS Upgrade from Windows 7. It was a platform to flog Microsoft's garbage😡

[Pro Avia 4]

You're welcome Rick. To be clear, my license key is linked to my MS account, same as yours. The only reason I did this is so my license is store digitally on the MS servers. But I don't use that account to log onto the computer unless I have an issue I can't solve otherwise. I use the secondary account for day to day operations. This is on my old Win 7, upgraded to Win 10 system.

On my new system, I purchased a Win 10 Pro USB stick and used the following to install Win 10. 

https://windowsreport.com/install-windows-10-without-microsoft-account/

Just scroll past the advertisements.......

I do get a nag after login that there is a problem with my MS account, which I ignore. Small price topay for not using an MS account.

[Wobbie 938]

Regarding this MS paranoia... Dont you think that Google knows more about us than MS?

Or is it just fashionable to bash MS?

[vc10man 732]

5 hours ago, Wobbie said:

Regarding this MS paranoia... Dont you think that Google knows more about us than MS?

Or is it just fashionable to bash MS?

Would not know,because I do not use Google, and if, as you question it being a paranoia, how come there are so many devs out there offering ways and means to take down MS a peg or two.?

[Wobbie 938]

You using Linux? How come there are close to a billion MS users?

Seriously? You must be pretty unique, not using a Google product. 

[vc10man 732]

1 hour ago, Wobbie said:

You using Linux? How come there are close to a billion MS users?

Seriously? You must be pretty unique, not using a Google product. 

There are alternatives to Google, y'know !!

[klamal 282]

1 hour ago, Wobbie said:

How come there are close to a billion MS users

Because that is(with few exceptions i.e. Dell offering Ubuntu) the only choice of an OS when buying a PC.  NOT because it is a great OS or that 1 billion MS users chose MS.

I'm not necessarily trying to bash MS here.  All the big tech companies have their pluses and minuses.  But I just don't agree that users prefer or chose MS.  Some do and some love MS.  But, a good percentage of those billion users also had no choice in the matter.

[vc10man 732]

1 hour ago, klamal said:

Because that is(with few exceptions i.e. Dell offering Ubuntu) the only choice of an OS when buying a PC.  NOT because it is a great OS or that 1 billion MS users chose MS.

I'm not necessarily trying to bash MS here.  All the big tech companies have their pluses and minuses.  But I just don't agree that users prefer or chose MS.  Some do and some love MS.  But, a good percentage of those billion users also had no choice in the matter.

Superbly stated. Kudos to you.👍 ++++1

[howevr 39]

On 4/15/2020 at 4:56 AM, vc10man said:

When I try to run Troubleshoot, it comes up with Error Code 0xC00F012

Just for interest Rick.

I know you have fixed this but co-incidentally I had a system next to me with the same problem. I could not resolve the issue and did a reinstall as the system had very little data and software loaded.

I did notice that the Software Protection Service would not start. Error 5. I guess I wasted around 3-4 hours trying to fix the issue. A reinstall of Win10 with essential software took me about 90 minutes. I did not sign into the owners account and used a local account only. Immediately after the install I went into Activation and Win10 was already activated with a digital license. I did not enter a key during the install phase. I intentionally left the system disconnected from any network. I also wiped all partitions before the install to ensure the disk was clean. I mention this to prove to myself that the key is tied to the hardware id and not a Microsoft account.

I suspect the Security Intelligence Updates (which you cannot uninstall) may have something to do with this error. There was an incident here in Australia a month ago where hundreds of users (including myself) of an accounts program (MYOB) were blocked from running its executable. Never fixed, We had to use a workaround.

Cheers,

[vc10man 732]

11 hours ago, howevr said:

Just for interest Rick.

I know you have fixed this but co-incidentally I had a system next to me with the same problem. I could not resolve the issue and did a reinstall as the system had very little data and software loaded.

I did notice that the Software Protection Service would not start. Error 5. I guess I wasted around 3-4 hours trying to fix the issue. A reinstall of Win10 with essential software took me about 90 minutes. I did not sign into the owners account and used a local account only. Immediately after the install I went into Activation and Win10 was already activated with a digital license. I did not enter a key during the install phase. I intentionally left the system disconnected from any network. I also wiped all partitions before the install to ensure the disk was clean. I mention this to prove to myself that the key is tied to the hardware id and not a Microsoft account.

I suspect the Security Intelligence Updates (which you cannot uninstall) may have something to do with this error. There was an incident here in Australia a month ago where hundreds of users (including myself) of an accounts program (MYOB) were blocked from running its executable. Never fixed, We had to use a workaround.

Cheers,

I tried using that link that Pro Avia sent to create a Local Account last night. It seems like, in the latest Build 1909, that Microsoft have sneakily removed the option at Your Info----Sign in with a local account instead😡, so, although I created another User, I could 'Sign in............'.

I did the same, a totally clean re-formatted drive, Clean Install.

Yes, through my Australia-based family, I was aware of that MYOB fiasco.

Edited April 19, 2020 by vc10man

[Pro Avia 4]

Here is how to setup a local account with Win 10 1909

https://www.howtogeek.com/442609/confirmed-windows-10-setup-now-prevents-local-account-creation/

 

[vc10man 732]

21 minutes ago, Pro Avia said:

Here is how to setup a local account with Win 10 1909

https://www.howtogeek.com/442609/confirmed-windows-10-setup-now-prevents-local-account-creation/

 

Thanks once again, Pro Avia. Will give it a go after completing current flight.