My W 8 and having to make an account

10 years ago

I am posting this in case anyone else feels like I do about giving out email and whatever to register a product to use it.

I bought a laptop with W 8 and I was annoyed because I had to make an account with MS. For some reason it didn't pick up on my wifi and I could not set up the account and it told me to make a local which I did and had to have a password. It didn't seem right for us to buy a PC and not be able to use without giving out our email and other personal info.

I ordered the reformat stick and reformatted the PC and set it up again. This time I unplugged the power to the desktop to stop the wifi signal. I also paid close attention to the options I set the PC up without having to make an account with anyone or set a password. In one instance I just hit next without filling out the form.

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mikie_gw
10 years ago
Yes, a lot of people have been unplugging Ethernet or routers with or without wifi to avoid the email account login and force the local account.

If you take your time installing and read the screens, you will see you don't have to have an email login. You can install with any name you like, but it looks sort of optional the way they've done it.

I use a hotmail login - and win8.1 all my docs and pics and downloads that I save are in skydrive and only placemarker/shortcuts on my hard drive.
I'm trusting skydrive .. but do have dropbox for backing it up & occasionally make a zip onto another drive.. Quick because few picts and most documents I will keep will be in some text format. Transfer fast,, zip small. .txt .xml. .oxps .rtm

This post was edited by mikie on Sun, Nov 3, 13 at 14:14
emma
Original Author
10 years ago
I deleted all the apps that require me to register to use on W 8. I have had computers a long time and haven't had to register with most things. I noticed superantispyware now wants you to register and another one that I can't think of right now. I have to admit I will never use W8 as long as there is classic shell.

Mikie Did you do the W 8.1 up grade? Do you like it?
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10 years ago
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emma
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10 years ago
I think one the most interesting things about a PC is the mystery. There so many things that can cause the same problem and so many way to fix a problem.

The lady I sold my laptop to called today and I asked if her husband had looked at it, he takes care of their PCs. She said no, I think he won't touch it because he thinks it is off limits to him. She told me the round about way he set her games up, she had to click on several things and go through IE to play her games. I told her the shortcuts were in the folder on the desktop, just open and click on the game she wanted to play. She thought that was so easy.
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10 years ago
EmmaR
Yes I updated my laptop from win7 to win8 pro for the $40 special, then to 8.1 preview, then to win8.1 pro. The original win8 had lots of issues but all fixable. Only one slight issue with the win8.1 final.. it didn't path the IE cache probably because I run a ram drive for that. So I had to add the path & uninstall and reinstall the few apps I do have installed.

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