New Machine and WinX Update: BORKED

Got a new machine yesterday, old tech compared to today but i5 3470, 16 gig ram, 120 SSD, 250 HDD, I have a outboard storage drive also.

Setting up my Microsoft account on the new machine. I have and account. It asks for PW. I put in the pw then it asks for confirmation. Says pw's don't match. Try again. Says pw's don't match. Tells me the problem is on their end so now it wants me to use a pin. OK. Make a pin. All logged in.

Using the new machine. Getting important software and bookmarks set up. It does another update. Machine was last updated 11 days ago by builder. OK. New update sets up. Everything is working. One of the things I have done on all my machines is disable One Drive from start up through the task manager. Been doing this for 3 years. No problem. I do it now. Says restart to take effect. I restart.

Log in screen comes up but now it's asking for my password. Didn't we just set up a pin? I use password to MS account. No go. I use pin. No go. Connection to internet has red X on it. Click on connection icon on bottom right and the only thing to come up is airplane mode, nothing else although there is room for the other things that would be in the same small area with airplane mode, they just don't show. Airplane mode is there by itself. Click on it. Nothing happens.

Still can't log into machine. Restart and I get as far as the password screen and that's it.

What the hell just happened? I talked to the builder. This is a new one on him.

I did a thing. I held down the shift key and clicked to restart. Took me to some kind of WinX safe mode. Reset from fresh although it was already ... "fresh."

Huh, a backdoor has been found??

I would never set up a Micro$oft account in the first place. Fuck 'em. All my machines have local accounts.

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Originally Posted by KJ3N

I would never set up a Micro$oft account in the first place. Fuck 'em. All my machines have local accounts.

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Get off mah lawn! :stirthepot:

well....it's WinBlows....what did you expect....

come over to the dark side & install Linux to be free....

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Originally Posted by NM5TF

well....it's WinBlows....what did you expect....

come over to the dark side & install Linux to be free....

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That's how you get on multiple government watch lists.

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Originally Posted by KG4CGC

That's how you get on multiple government watch lists.

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they been watching me since the 1960s.....

and you think Micro$oft isn't in their pockets ??? hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

I'm not bovered. Are you bovered?

But thanks for the help.

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Originally Posted by KG4CGC

That's how you get on multiple government watch lists.

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If that's the case then I must have be on multiple government watch lists for many decades.

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Originally Posted by n2ize

If that's the case then I must have be on multiple government watch lists for many decades.

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No, just in the last 17 years.

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Originally Posted by KG4CGC

No, just in the last 17 years.

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Were you worth being on a watch list for 17 years Charles? :mrgreen:

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Originally Posted by VE7DCW

Were you worth being on a watch list for 17 years Charles? :mrgreen:

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I was explaining to Tom that he hasn't been a watch list for decades because he uses Linux.

For months Microsoft has been describing Windows 10 “as a service” and now we know why. Microsoft is going to introduce a monthly subscription fee for Windows 10 usage…

That cost will be $7 per user per month but the good news is it only applies to enterprises, for now. The new pricing tier will be called “Windows 10 Enterprise E3” and it means Windows has finally joined Office 365 and Azure as a subscription service.

Of course the big question is now: How does this new subscription pricing affect the millions of consumers who upgraded to Windows 10 on the promise of it being free?


https://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonk.../#763ce7e93184