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User 842020-Feb-19 8:18
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Rage20-Feb-19 20:51
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Recently bought a new PC.
I needed :
- a microsoft account (what for ??) that may, or may not, be used as a login to your machine to get Win10 ready.
- a 4-digit pin that you may, or may not, use as a password to login and/or as a quick admin password ??!! (ever heard of security, microsoft?). The link between this and the previous account is that you need the account to reset the 4-digit pin in case you want to change it, but otherwise ... none. The 4-digit was the default, but after some research, I could create a normal login with a real password.
- another microsoft account for installing office - no 365, never you'll get my things in the cloud - because the first one was not working for registration. It took me one day (!) to get microsoft to accept the license I bought, since the online registration portal is a nice POS and it is damn hard to find in your freshly installed unlicensed ms office version a way to enter the license, had to use MSDOS sysinternals to help, otherwise it kept telling I need to register without providing a way to register.

WTE ? 2 accounts, 4 different passwords (2 microsoft accounts, one "real" login for the PC, and this sh*tty 4-digit PIN). How do computer illiterate people deal with this sh*t ?

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