Unable to Log on to Nexus

[jayrichardm]

I've spent the last several years playing Skyrim and Fallout 4 on an Xbox, that is until my Xbox X could no longer handle the game and the mods I had and was crashing at least once every half hour. Moving to a gaming PC has been a challenge. First off half of my favorite Xbox mods don't have a PC counterpart, so I've had to find PC mods that do the same thing. In doing that I discovered the world of adult content mods. I tried to put a couple of those mods on my Xbox. In so doing I stumbled upon a closely guarded Microsoft corporate secret. Microsoft has programed their alpha input utility to not send a logon ID to the Nexus web cite. They are preventing any of these adult content mods, or any Nexus mods for that matter, from being loaded onto an Xbox.

 

At first I assumed that their program just didn't work and tried to go through their help system. After half a dozen questions to narrow down my help request it came down to Microsoft refusing to take questions on the subject. So I then went to their forum. I was surprised at how fast Microsoft got back to me. The responder left no doubt that it was not a bug in their input utility, The alpha input utility was not sending my logon ID to Nexus on purpose. Minutes after I pointed out that the response I received was a clear admission that they were doing that on purpose, the moderator locked that thread.

 

I don't have a problem with not being able to load Nexus mods onto my Xbox. I do have a problem with what happened today.. Today I loaded a new update to Windows 10 on my gaming computer. Now the exact same thing is happening with my gaming computer. My login ID is not being sent to the Nexus site. I can no longer login to Nexus on my gaming computer.

 

Is anybody else having this problem?

[jayrichardm]

I assume that you can all read between the lines here. It would appear that Microsoft is once again abusing their market position and is going to put Nexus out of business. Microsoft has a long history of doing that to companies they don't want to compete with

[HeyYou]

I run win 10 on my computer, which I also use for gaming, and have zero issues logging in here.

 

Are you trying to log in with an app? Some mod manager? Internet browser?

[JimmyRJump]

Microsoft has no control over where you want to log-in. You log-in through your web browser. I have switched to Google Chrome a few years ago because FireFox didn't display all the options on a webpage, including the option to log into the Nexus. I'm still using FireFox as my main surfing browser but for Nexus and YouTube I'm either using Chrome or Opera. The latter is a bit redundant now as it has become a Chrome clone.

 

Besides trying another browser, you also might check anti-virus settings to see if for some reason Nexus got blacklisted. I'm also running Win10, by the way.

 

I used to be a security nut, until I realized that it's just a hype to sell you more and more expensive and cumulative software and you start tinkering with all settings available until a lot of things start going wrong or no longer work because you went one step too far. Now, I just run a regular A/V solution and don't really care any longer. I'm not important enough for anybody to try and hack my PC and the online banking services in Belgium are secure enough to not having to worry. For other payments, I'm using PayPal. Maybe not as secure, but their money-back policy when fraud is involved is pretty solid.

[HeyYou]

In all reality, on win 10, you don't even need any third party anti-malware software. Defender does an adequate job. Besides, these days, most malware is vectored via advertisements..... so, use a decent ad blocker, and you are all set.

[JimmyRJump]

In all reality, on win 10, you don't even need any third party anti-malware software. Defender does an adequate job. Besides, these days, most malware is vectored via advertisements..... so, use a decent ad blocker, and you are all set.

I don't trust Windows Defender any further than my nose is long. And since I'm not Pinocchio, that's not very far. Been using BitDefender for almost sixteen years now and buy a version for three years. I know it and am used to it, so why change? I pay under ninety bucks, that's less than 30 a year, so...

[jayrichardm]

Never thought of that Jimmy. I should be able to download Chrome. I shouldn't have the same problem logging in through Chrome. But Microsoft does have control where you log in to, when you are using a program they wrote and control to log into a web site. Note what I wrote about logging into Nexus on my Xbox. I played enough dirty tricks when I was working on mainframes that I know it can be done'

 

I guess it's possible that my security is somehow interfering with sending my logon ID to Nexus, but I never had that problem before Microsoft's last update. But I'll check the anti-virus settings if I can find them.

 

My auto-login isn't working. It has stopped saving my login info. I deleted the login info for Nexus. For some reason I was now able to log into Nexus, bit it never re-saved the login info.

[JimmyRJump]

 

In all reality, on win 10, you don't even need any third party anti-malware software. Defender does an adequate job. Besides, these days, most malware is vectored via advertisements..... so, use a decent ad blocker, and you are all set.

I don't trust Windows Defender any further than my nose is long. And since I'm not Pinocchio, that's not very far. Been using BitDefender for almost sixteen years now and buy a version for three years. I know it and am used to it, so why change? I pay under ninety bucks, that's less than 30 a year, so...

 

Microsoft have tried to control what you can and cannot use, in the past. It was supposed to get introduced with Longhorn back in 2004. It was a platform with Canon, HP, IBM and other big names in a 'conspiracy' to only let you install software that was green-lighted by Microsoft's digital signature checklist. But Longhorn crashed at the press presentation and couldn't be revived. Microsoft was so dismayed (and Windows Longhorn so bad) that they started from scratch and ùmade what became Vista. That's why there's six years between Windows XP and Vista, instead of the regular three.

 

Vista didn't have any of the implementations Longhorn had foreseen as meanwhile there had been so much protest from the community that the corporations that were on board jumped ship and continued to allow third-party software, to the dismay of Bill Gates. The only thing that was introduced in Vista to annoy folk was the UAC (User Account Control) that couldn't be turned off and which was changed in Windows 7 to a version that could be turned off.

 

XboX is a complete Microsoft environment that allows to control certain things, sure. Just like PlayStations can control what files you use on it. A personal computer is different because there a user has access to all the basic settings. Windows 10 introduced a few settings that cannot be turned off, like automatic update (which CAN be turned off in the Services) and somesuch, but controlling what webpages you visit or what you download isn't feasable when you don't control the internet provider you have a subscription with.

[jayrichardm]

Chrome seems to be much better for logging in to Nexus. I'll be using that to log in. I never did like Microsoft's Edge.

 

Thanks for your advice Jimmy.

[JimmyRJump]

Chrome seems to be much better for logging in to Nexus. I'll be using that to log in. I never did like Microsoft's Edge.

 

Thanks for your advice Jimmy.

Good to hear you got it sorted :thumbsup: