NexBeth Posted April 24 Share Posted April 24 Home and Pro, which is what I imagine most people had, only have 24-mo support after release. Anyway, my point was to give OP heads-up that primary components will soon be going next-gen and that might interest him as he plans for a new build. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barrettsfloyd Posted April 24 Author Share Posted April 24 (edited) 10 hours ago, HeyYou said: Windows 10 and up are spyware masquerading as operating systems. I seem to remember spending good money on anti spyware and adwware products. I have spent most of my free time the past several days reading up on some tech related things and watching some Youtube videos on the same. I think I've disabled and/or uninstalled most of the spyware and bloat. Now if I could just figure out to permanently disable the sign in on the lock screen. I do miss my Windows 7 already. Can't keep using it though. Edited April 24 by barrettsfloyd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeyYou Posted April 24 Share Posted April 24 Should be a setting for that somewhere.... I don't remember where though. If you sign in with an MS account though, I don't think you CAN turn that off.... There was a video on youtube some time back..... a guy turned off all the telemetry that win 10 gave him the option for, but, windows was still phoning home, 2500 times an hour....... or something equally as silly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AaronOfMpls Posted April 25 Share Posted April 25 This morning I read about ways to disable a bunch of that -- including the need for a Microsoft account -- on a fresh Win11 install. I'll link it if I find it; it was something I found a few articles deep in a news app on my phone, and so will be hard to find since that doesn't keep a history that I know of. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7531Leonidas Posted April 25 Share Posted April 25 I think that the term is 'Local Account' for a non-Microsoft account Windows install. It's been too long since I did mine, don't remember. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeyYou Posted April 25 Share Posted April 25 8 hours ago, 7531Leonidas said: I think that the term is 'Local Account' for a non-Microsoft account Windows install. It's been too long since I did mine, don't remember. MS doesn't want you to have a local account though. They WANT you to have an MS account, so they can sell your data, and get paid for targeted advertising. (Via your O/S..... hhhhmmmmm........) Used to be, you could use [email protected] as the email address for your MS account, enter anything at all for the password, and it would give you an "Ooops", and let you set up a local account. Last time I tried that though, it didn't wanna work. Had to resort to command line methods..... If you do Shift+F10, at any point before logging in with your MS account, (during initial setup) it will open a command windows. Type in "oobe\bypassnro" (no quotes) the machine will restart, and when you get to the sign-in for the MS account, the option for "I don't have Internet" will be there. Unless, of course, you are already connected...... (ethernet cable, or whathaveyou) Windows will whine at you every now and again to 'complete setup', and want you to sign in with an MS account, but, that's easy to bypass as well. :D 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7531Leonidas Posted April 26 Share Posted April 26 I just thought that if you search for 'Local Account for W11', or something similar, you could find a non-MS windows tweak site or two that would give you the steps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeyYou Posted June 9 Share Posted June 9 On 4/26/2024 at 6:30 PM, 7531Leonidas said: I just thought that if you search for 'Local Account for W11', or something similar, you could find a non-MS windows tweak site or two that would give you the steps. The command line trick at initial setup works. If you are already signing in with an MS account, I *believe* you can change it to a local account, but, one drive will likely still be enabled. You just won't necessarily need a password to sign in to windows. Haven't played with that aspect of 11 yet.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drakefell01 Posted June 9 Share Posted June 9 (edited) I would try: cheaper with quality: Acer More expensive with even better quality: Cyber Pc My pc is 15 years old and shows no signs of quitting. Edited June 9 by Drakefell01 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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