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Microsoft has removed the “use offline account” option when installing Windows

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Re: Microsoft has removed the “use offline account” option when installing Windows

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Post by GlenTheMachine »

CRConrad wrote: post #438
GlenTheMachine wrote: post #100

...and from what I can tell, their online account security is craptastic. Here’s a true story that happened to my family. My son is the only person in the house who uses Windows. For his game machine. He set up a Microsoft online account. It got hacked - someone set up a fake family and managed to get my son’s account listed under it as a child. As a consequence, he couldn’t install any new software. I’m not sure wha…

Several people here have talked about “hacks” like what happened to ypur son, and I'm of course not saying they're wrong. I don't quite get the idea what it's supposed to get such hackers, though, so I think you shouldn't rule out sheer incompetence: Maybe someone else has a family member with the same or a similar name and was trying to add rhem, and a search threw up your son's name and they added him by mistake? S…

IIRC this particular family had several thousand children. I don’t think it was a mistake.

Re: Microsoft has removed the “use offline account” option when installing Windows

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Post by gchucky »

theclaw wrote: post #421
moontear wrote: post #362

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Thanks for that search problem link I am exactly one of those users and start menu search just isn’t working. I have switched to Launchy as an alternative after years of being happy with the start menu search. I can finally look for a solution now, nice.

May I recommend Keypirinha [1] over Launchy? I recently tried all of the launchers I could find for Windows and KP was by far the best, and does not get enough recognition in my view. [1] http://keypirinha.com/

I've been using Executor recently, but this looks to be way more powerful. Thanks for the tip.

Re: Microsoft has removed the “use offline account” option when installing Windows

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Post by dannyw »

xtracto wrote: post #250
cwojno wrote: post #203

I've switched to Linux + Mint in part because I don't want to be using Windows any more. Many of my games work with Steam on Linux now, actually. With Google's docs/drive, everything works cross platform. I really have no productivity loss by not using Windows any more.

> With Google's docs/drive, everything works cross platform What do you use instead of Google Backup and Sync client? I haven't found something that works like that. The "best" thing I've found is the FUSE Ocaml filesystem ( https://github.com/astrada/google-drive-ocamlfuse ) but still it is a "mounted" over network filesystem and not a sync-on-change solution. I tried InSync but could not make it work and it is not…

Drive File Stream. You need a G Suite account for some weird reason tho.

Re: Microsoft has removed the “use offline account” option when installing Windows

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Post by Kuinox »

kchamplewski wrote: post #535
bachmeier wrote: post #502

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Is there anyone that even knows what "Domain join" means? If the button was there but hidden, would that count as "still there"? What if it was there but labeled "Click here to brick your computer"?

Domain joining means connecting the machine to a Windows domain allowing domain user accounts to be used, and allowing for the domain to administer the machine. It's actually quite a helpful option to have, but it's completely absurd for the only way to create a local account to be via the domain join option.

The "offline account" was simply renamed to domain join. If it's an sentence selection error i won't be suprised. In this panel, there is nothing about domain join.

Re: Microsoft has removed the “use offline account” option when installing Windows

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Post by klingonopera »

nikbackm wrote: post #538
klingonopera wrote: post #512

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Thanks for this. I must've shrugged it off initially for using the "IoT"-buzzword ( who are they selling too?). Reading up a bit on it here[1], and again, I'm appalled. I don't want to waste time and money cherry-picking Windows versions. There's IoT Core, Mobile and Enterprise, and then there's Enterprise LTSB, apparently with year codes too, what gives? Nah, all this time and money wasted doing that can be invested…

IoT Enterprise is basically the same as Enterprise LTBS.

From the link I posted above: "On the technical side, the Windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSB is the same as the "normal" Windows 10 Enterprise LTSB. But: Not on the licensing term side."

...whatever's truly true and factual in this case, I don't know, but I'm simply pissed that there's ambiguity about this. And that's just one of the reasons I avoid Windows 10 like the plague.

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Post by [deleted] »

Nux wrote: post #366
mastazi wrote: post #238

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Adobe Suite, Ableton Live with various VST plugins. I’m going to investigate the Wine route, as I’m hearing that it supports many applications nowadays

None of the Adobe stuff works under Wine, alas.

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Re: Microsoft has removed the “use offline account” option when installing Windows

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Post by paulcarroty »

Nux wrote: post #366
mastazi wrote: post #238

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Adobe Suite, Ableton Live with various VST plugins. I’m going to investigate the Wine route, as I’m hearing that it supports many applications nowadays

None of the Adobe stuff works under Wine, alas.

Fake news!

Use latest PS and Lr.

Re: Microsoft has removed the “use offline account” option when installing Windows

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Post by mikestew »

viraptor wrote: post #464
jodrellblank wrote: post #446

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> Latest excel has gold level support "The test results for this version are very old" "What works: "Basic editing of the slides (inserting and formatting texts, images)"" "What was not tested: "Advanced functionality"" ---- Nobody has tested it recently, nobody knows if "advanced" features work, and they think it's PowerPoint. What does 'Gold' mean?

> Nobody has tested it recently Whatever worked is highly unlikely to stop working. You can expect better support than in past test. > What does 'Gold' mean? https://wiki.winehq.org/AppDB_Rating_Definitions

Whatever worked is highly unlikely to stop working.

New to software development, are we? That is such a laughably bad assumption that I’ll assume what I think you meant to say is not really what you meant to say.

But I’m glad to know that editing slides works just fine in Excel. From the link, “Gold” means: “Works as well as (or better than) on Windows with workarounds.” The test results say online login crashes. That tells me their certification program doesn’t mean shit.

Re: Microsoft has removed the “use offline account” option when installing Windows

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Post by miki123211 »

I always tell peole to use offline accounts. Microsoft, in their eternal wisdom, sets your username to your first name when you do the on line account thing. If you're John or Chuck, it's fine, if you have non ascii characters in there, it's not. Some programs crash when saving to C:\Users\Yourname if Yourname contains non asci chars. Some even create a separate user folder with a broken encoding.
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