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It may not display this or other websites correctly. You should upgrade or use an alternative browser. EarDemon Thread Starter. Dec 5, 1, USA. Anyone ever do a clean install of Windows 10 Pro for Workstations?
If so, how does it work? First, I refuse to sign into a Microsoft account on my PC and second, that doesn't make sense to me since this is targeted for business, and you typically sign in with an AD domain account. So how does one go about doing a clean install and keeping the OS sku they paid for? Jan 4, 31, 25, Fairfax, VA. I have installed W10 Pro at work numerous times, even using a W7 activation code. During the installation, I created a local account rather than signing into my own personal Microsoft account.
Does that address the problem? May 5, 16, 2, Salem, OR. I too don't believe that it must be tied to a Microsoft account although if it is tied before you make the image, all bets are off. Tying to a Microsoft account can really make life very difficult. I don't expect that you're going to get a straight and accurate answer from neither HP nor Microsoft so you're left with experimentation. Maybe do a drive copy and try it out on the new drive. You might also try a Microsoft image.
Here is Microsoft's official response. Fresh install of windows 10 pro for workstation Like all of these posts on Microsoft's Help Forums, the answer is pretty much useless. It's the 'So long as you have a Digital License for your computer and you have linked your Microsoft Account' part of the answer that worries me. If I never sign in with a Microsoft Account, how is it supposed to be linked?
A few months ago I bought 7 Dell Precision s with Pro For Workstation, but have not had to reinstall Windows yet, and when I set them up, I never signed into a Microsoft Account, I just created the local user and then added the domain account.
So experimentation may be the best way to get an answer. While I think Microsoft's new strategy of the twice a year updates not requiring a what is essentially an in-place upgrade, is a step in the right direction, I still have every intention do complete reformats with every xx03 and xx09 release.
Microsoft's support too often gets shuttled off to "the community" which is a crap shoot at its best. That said, the old support site offered a whole lot of disinformation and just plain wrong advice. Now they've mostly move all their internal support to Technet. Technet can be helpful but it comes with a steep price and the answers seem too often to toe the Microsoft line rather than be a quick solution to a simple problem. I'm of a mind that the long term solution is to take our business elsewhere.
It won't be easy on the front end but the back end will be much simper. Reactions: TheKrell and Lone Gunman. I have my answer. Activation failed and when attempting to re-activate it detected I had a digital license for Pro for Workstation and automatically did the feature update. No signing in to an MS account or anything. After a restart Windows was activated with PfW. Reactions: mdonnelly. EarDemon said:. Click to expand Reactions: TheKrell. Lifetime Supporter. Nov 25, 15, 7, Michiana.
After thinking about the upgrade for five minutes, it spits out a "Couldn't stream Office" error, saying it can't reach the necessary images. All other Internet activities seem fine. My Corporate IT folks aren't much help as they all said, "worked on mine". I saw it was available for my MacMini running Win 10 , so I went ahead and said install it. I didn't see anything exciting. Chromium-based Edge the default browser this could be problematic?
Windows Hello looks like a password manager and if it is security oriented and comes from Microsoft, I'll pass. Even if it is almost entirely bulletproof, someone will crack it just because. This appears to depend on a Microsoft account that is also something I cannot abide due to its history of large-scale security breaches.
I expect some out-of-band patches for some of these that break major software titles. All sorts of stuff aimed at enterprise Windows deployments.
Windows Sandbox enhanced another attempt at saving users from themselves that I believe will give many a false sense of security. Dec 4, North Eastern. Not sure if it helps. For 10 Home bypassing the Microsoft Account prompt is as easy as disabling the network adapters. Probably should be the same with pro. After it downloaded and rebooted a couple of times, I have Win 10 and I haven't noticed anything different, other than being able to install the new Chromium-based Edge which looks and feels like Chrome, huh I was watching "Windows Weekly" on TWiT and Mary Jo Foley was observing her Microsoft computer wasn't able to get the Feature Update due to stability issues.
Foxbat said:. Reactions: Foxbat. Most people would run Windows in an emulator, but this is Windows 10 on bare metal, not even Bootcamp but with the necessary drivers from the Bootcamp distribution. I downloaded the ISO from Microsoft a few hours after it was put up and did clean installs of on all of my computer last week. No problems to speak of. The old Edge comes installed by default which I found odd. You have to manually update to the Chromium version.
Also, some of the built-in nonsense Metro apps have been removed. Less for me to uninstall. The onboard Intel card was recognized without a problem. Aren't Macs dongle city to begin with? Some of the cheaper models have only two Thunderbolt ports.
Why the industry hasn't come up with a miniature version of the 8-conductor RJ45 surprises me. Reason 9,, not to own an Apple product. I don't understand the desire for these thin and frail laptops that have one or two ports and you need a adapter or dongle for everything. With the 'we know what's best for you' mentality of Apple, four thunderbolt ports on their most expensive over priced laptop is all you peasants get. Previous Next.
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