bilsch01 wrote:

If you buy a pc with Win10 in S mode can you get it out of S mode, maybe
by paying a fee to upgrade out of S mode?

https://www.google.com/search?q=windows%2010%20s%20mode

found

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/...-in-s-mode-faq

As I recall, their process has you download and run an app from them
that permanently switches you out of S mode. The app runs temporarily
and transparently in the background. I suspect it makes a ton of
registry changes after having to change permissions on them.

I've not seen anyone get S mode unless they were using a school's
laptop. Is the computer your property, or someone else's? If the
school were smart, it would install an inventorying client on their
property that they loan out to student which reports back to them what
is on their property, and let them burn any student that violates the
setup of the school's property. If I bought a computer that includes
Windows 10 and found they dumped S mode on me with no mention before the
sale, I'd take it back (in a mess in a big carton) and demand a refund
for them selling to me what I did not agree to buy.


A search at:

https://www.youtube.com/results?sear...010%20s%20mode

found some articles describing it and how to get out of it. From those,
switching out of S mode is free.