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FWIW, I don't see this set of steps in any of the comments here. And as of late I've been setting up tons of Dell Laptops, so I have this memorized. Windows 1
by jasonjayr 7y ago
FWIW, I don't see this set of steps in any of the comments here. And as of late I've been setting up tons of Dell Laptops, so I have this memorized.
Windows 10 Professional, freshly minted from Dell:
* "Set up for organization"
* "Local account or domain join" (it's in small print in the lower left)
* Create a local Admin account
* Do not setup a password at this time (it'll force you to set up recovery questions or some other nonsense.)
* set all the data sharing options to "no"
* skip entering data for the Dell registration
* On first login, hit ctrl-alt-del and set a password there.
Windows Home does not offer the choice to "Setup up for organization", so you are forced to make a windows account. There's no way easy way out of it.
Microsoft keeps saying "Windows is a service" and has that text somewhere in the install. I guess if you want an operating system, you have to turn to Linux.