That's funny because I heard exactly the opposite. I know quite a few Apple users. I'm not anxious to have to use apple since I have all these windows applications but the truth is is apple has much better and famous apps. Even the music and the movie industry uses Apple. That almost proves my point. If you look at any movie TV show you'll notice that when a computer is in the background it is always an apple. Why would that be you think? Very few movies are edited with Windows programs. In fact I would say maybe 2%. I know movie producers and I have personally worked in the movie and TV industry and apple is the standard. Tested and tried and apparently proved Superior. Sorry windows but you're now a thing of the past. Hopefully somebody else buys Microsoft and puts the money in to make Microsoft great again.
Set MS Windows 11 permanently to stop asking for sign-in password or pin
Please Microsoft, stop being such an annoying nanny.
My personal desktop PC at home is not accessible to anyone except me. When I turn it on I don't want to be constantly prompted to sign in to my Microsoft account (which itself is endlessly annoying as you can't just sign in). MS insists on the endless complicated sign ins. Even after setting my account not to require a password or pin to auto-start, MS keeps re-setting that. I'm not even allowed to set an easy repeated pin entry or password. Google is also doing that ****. I can't tell you how many times a day I have to respond to emails or text messages with verification codes and 2FAs. They want scan my face or use my fingerprint to supposedly make it easier -- at what additional cost?
Please don't lecture me on security. I have a hearty password manager, encrypted router authentication settings, and countless other protections. This is not a publicly accessible laptop or phone.
This nonsense is incredible. It affects everything and makes you waste an enormous amount of time.
While I'm at it, they're criminal highwaymen. I've spent months trying to speak to a live support agent about a deranged licensing system. I had a valid product key for over a decade. My PC could not run Windows 11 (more nanny nonsense). So, I bought some hardware and upgraded that PC.
I made the harrowing mistake of updating windows during my hardware process. In that update, Windows wiped out my product key from the registry and took me on this months long rabbit hole of their idiotic explanations in a circuitous meandering labyrinthine maze that always ends up without solution and sends you back to the same old starting place.
They can easily find that my Windows installation was used without any licensing question for a decade. I could even provide them over two years of regular update installations, but they want me to go through hundreds of storage boxes to find my original disk and key. I've been there before with XP and 7. Even when I find the box with the key on it, their computerized activation system refuses to let me use it. Simply ****?
They've so completely complicated their licensing structure and definitions into a shell game, with that garbage excuses gatekeeping extortion scam. They're running a criminal ransom operation. When you're upgrading hardware you will finally give up and buy a new digital key -- crooks. Then, after I was able to finally activate Windows 10, I chose to upgrade to Windows 11. Now the same **** is happening all over again. They want me to spend another $120 to buy another key. What incredible A**H***S!
Windows for home | Windows 11 | Accounts, profiles, and login
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2025-04-09T20:06:55+00:00 I have stopped the initial PC setup when I came across this is issue.
Can you set up your new machine to be autonomous, i.e. bypassing Microsoft
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2025-04-08T08:12:00+00:00 Apple has more problems than they want you to know about. My son used to work for Apple and he quit because of both internal issues, and that their machines are way over priced. They pretty much have the same software, but acts in a different way. Apple for the last two years have been riddled with malware and viruses.
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2025-04-07T18:56:15+00:00 Appreciate the advice. You can have the Apples. They think they are but aren't really any better. I've got it figured out. I prefer to be able to run my own programs not what Apple wants me to do. Plus the security seems to be failing quite a bit these days. My husband seems to be having more issues in the last 3 years than I've had in 15. Stay safe out there.
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Anonymous
2025-04-07T18:43:48+00:00 Time to go with Apple or Linux. Windows is becoming a thing of the past with all this new **** there doing. Even their updates are screwing things up. Windows is just an accident waiting to happen. Buy an Apple computer. They don't have any problems