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I've just hit my first stumbling block on Windows 10. I wanted Remote Connection (to access a Raspberry Pi). So to download the free app, I have to create a Microsoft Account. Why do I need an account to get something that is free? Fortunately, I had the prescience of mind to create a new pretend email address and autoforward it to a real email address rather than using my usual one.
But when I next reboot the PC I get a strange screen - it turns out, I now have to log on to start my own PC; I've never logged on before. My boot up process was 1) Switch on; now it is 1) Switch on, 2) Wait for logon page, 3) Enter password. And the really bad thing is that the password turned out to be the one that I had set for the Microsoft Account. So, MS knows the password to start my PC. How insecure is that?
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You can remove the Microsoft account from windows[^].
jsc42 wrote: How insecure is that?
Likely they don't "know" the actual password, but rather some one-way-hash of it. Windows likely then does the same one-way-hash of your entered password and authenticates with that.
Local windows passwords do the same. Logging into most web-based email systems (like hotmail, gmail, outlook, etc) do the same.
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You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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jsc42 wrote: had the prescience of mind to create a new pretend email address and autoforward it to a real email address rather than using my usual one.
Mailinator is your friend![^]
Jeremy Falcon
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jsc42 wrote: I now have to log on to start my own PC; I've never logged on before
You've always been logging into Windows (at least with the NT line forward), you apparently just never knew you did.
In this day and age, that's a good thing.
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I used Windows 10 for a week but last night upgraded my PC back to Windows 7 - Microsoft make the whole upgrade process very simple. I can now read text on the screen again without wanting to fanny about with the font every 30 seconds or so. I will probably use 10 on a tablet but I mostly use a PC which 10 is entirely unsuitable for.
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Congratulations on figuring out how re-enable Make Things as Easy as Possible for the Methhead who Stole my PC to Pay for His Next Hit by Pawning my PC.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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jsc42 wrote: So, MS knows the password to start my PC. How insecure is that?
Rather more secure than anybody in the whole world being able to start your PC because it didn't have a password at all I would have thought? And as someone else has said MS don't know your password at all just as your bank doesn't know your PIN ... on which subject you also have the option of signing in with a PIN which is equally unknown to MS! I'm afraid you're getting my Tinfoil Hat of the Day Award!
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I had a similar thing happen to me. When I logged in to the MS Store, my account was switched from my local one, to my MS one. The next time I needed to unlock my screen, I didn't notice the change right away, and tried several times to use my local account password before I realized the account had been switched to the MS one. Fortunately, I use LastPass to manage my passwords, and was able to look it up one another device. After unlocking the screen, I switched back to my local account, and all was well again.
IMO, MS should never switch accounts, and at the very least warn you that they did.
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And I probably won't feel so good tomorrow either...
But I added some shoulder and triceps exercises to my training routine and some weights to my regular exercises.
And that feels pretty damn good 
"Yeah man, I exercise pretty hard, lifting some serious weights. Gotta keep those arms in shape, I'm in IT you know..." 
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Sander Rossel wrote: Gotta keep those arms in shape, I'm in IT you know
So you want them flaccid and white?
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Munchies_Matt wrote: flaccid and white
How about weak and pale?
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Don't tell me. My last trail race was really hard. You know, Klingon developers run like hell. 
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I remember I started going to gym twice in 4 months. Gave up! Not my life-style.
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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I'd never go to the gym.
Never say never, but I don't think anything is more closely to never than me going to the gym
I got some stuff at home.
And I'm still having trouble to motivate myself to lift those weights.
It's horrible, but at least I'm building some physique...
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Sander Rossel wrote: I got some stuff at home.
Sure you have stuff at home, but do you have hot women walking around in skin-tight lycra at home? 
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I could hang a poster on my wall... 
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I'm lifting serious weights every day.
Gotta do something 'bout that belly!
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Exactly! 
And a belly is really the only thing I have...
I've been 20 kg heavier than I am now.
Really, I weighed almost 80 kg and people told me how I was skinny and had no arms...
Until of course I took off my much too wide shirt and revealed my pregnant-looking stomach 
And now I weigh 60 kg and people still tell me how I am so skinny and have no arms...
Until of course I take off my shirt and reveal my pregnant-looking stomach 
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Lifting weights isn't the best way to reduce fat; if you're looking to get rid of your belly you're better doing cardio like rowing, cycling etc. Whilst lifting weights does burn energy, it's nowhere near as many calories per hour as cardio does. The main weight-loss benefits of lifting weight is that muscle burns calories even while at rest so your general metabolism is slightly increased.
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I added some bacon to my morning routine* today and now I feel awesome!
*which already included a reasonable amount of bacon
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Your joke is wasted on this vegetarian
I added some proteins to my breakfast though 
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No joke.
But you're a vegetarian who feels not so good, I'm full of bacon and feel awesome.
Enjoy those extra years won't you 
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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chriselst wrote: But you're a vegetarian who feels not so good, I'm full of bacon and feel awesome.
You got me
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OK, I get an Alert: "Verify your MS account".
OK, no problem.
Yes, yes, microsoft - send the code to my email.
Apparently, email addresses are case sensitive now, because my email "Paul....@....com" entered in "proper case" doesn't match the account email which starts with "pa..." OK. Try again, all in lower case this time.
Success! I get a code!
Enter code, it verifies, and then notice the account email on the message:
Microsoft account
Security code
Please use the following security code for the Microsoft account Pa*****@[REDACTED].com. Which is all in "proper case" just as I entered it the first time...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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