> it won't let me turn it on without giving full access to... Well it won't allow me to turn it on because I live in France and thus have a "french" MS/Live ac

> it won't let me turn it on without giving full access to... Well it won't allow me to turn it on because I live in France and thus have a "french" MS/Live account but set my system language to English. Go figure†. † I can very well make up a zillion obscure and convoluted technical and/or legal reasons, but none make any sense from a end-user point of view, which is, in the end, what matters.