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How to avoid creating/using a Microsoft Account when upgrading to Win 8.1
cranioscopical:
Finally! Today I found time to update Win8 to Win8.1. This after a week when Murphy pitched his tent in our yard.
Everything went smoothly the first time round. Thanks to the advice in this topic I was able to avoid opening accounts that I don't want.
So, thanks to all. :Thmbsup:
(The 8.1 Start screen is the most garish thing I've seen since the WWW began.)
Stoic Joker:
Wasn't sure where to put this and didn't want to start another thread, so... :D
Had a client (who was out of town) call today in low grade ballistic mode after apparently their Windows 8 laptop just decided to up and start upgrading itself. Luckily I had stashed a copy of the installer for their cellular broadband card - which the 8.1 upgrade broke - on the laptop so I could get them back online over the phone.
Has anyone else heard of that bizarre behavior?
cranioscopical:
Wasn't sure where to put this and didn't want to start another thread, so... :D
Had a client (who was out of town) call today in low grade ballistic mode after apparently their Windows 8 laptop just decided to up and start upgrading itself. Luckily I had stashed a copy of the installer for their cellular broadband card - which the 8.1 upgrade broke - on the laptop so I could get them back online over the phone.
Has anyone else heard of that bizarre behavior?
-Stoic Joker (November 06, 2013, 06:12 PM)
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Yeah, just last night I wanted to look up something about W8.1 and came across a thread somewhere that was stiff with such complaints. Did your client really do absolutely nothing to start that going?
There's this, too — MS put up a banner across my wife's screen urging her to upgrade. No obvious (to her) way to get out of it, When I saw it I though ti was some sort of scam but, no, in the end it led to the store.
OTOH I've 'upgraded' two machines now with no significant glitches.
Stoic Joker:
While they maintain they did "nothing..."
MS put up a banner across my wife's screen urging her to upgrade-cranioscopical (November 06, 2013, 06:45 PM)
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There was something to that effect mumbled in passing.
Still, it's a hell of a bind to put someone in since they were traveling by car when the whole thing kicked off.
cranioscopical:
While they maintain they did "nothing..."
MS put up a banner across my wife's screen urging her to upgrade-cranioscopical (November 06, 2013, 06:45 PM)
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There was something to that effect mumbled in passing.
Still, it's a hell of a bind to put someone in since they were traveling by car when the whole thing kicked off.
-Stoic Joker (November 06, 2013, 06:53 PM)
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Yup, when one tells it to move on it just doesn't w8, it gets right into the download without ado — no second chances. Had I not been okay with doing the 'upgrade' I'd have been appalled. As it was I sat there wondering just how many people were going to get screwed by this — it's a really dumb way to do things.
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