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2026-06-30 16:36 UTC
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@simon@procrastodon.net 2026-06-30 16:50
@lerven@tweesecake.social I forgot to add: If you have done absolutely nothing with the laptop yet, and you want to stop Windows from forcing you to sign into a Microsoft account, you can press shift+f10 from the out-of-box screen to open a command prompt, and type this: start ms-cxh:localonly This brings up the old "Who's going to use this PC" screen and when you're done, it pretty much immediately signs you in. It skips over a lot of the introductory setup if you didn't already do it, which is mostly a good thing. Just check your privacy settings since you don't get to manually approve or reject them. If you want to do a complete Windows reinstall, you can use the same shift+f10 shortcut and directly launch d:\setup.exe, instead of going through setup or fiddling with boot menus. You probably don't need to do that on a Lenovo; I have the same laptop from a few generations ago, and I have never reinstalled Windows. It's pretty clean apart from Lenovo vantage.