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Win10 S
My wife just purchased a laptop with Win10 S Home and has given me to go
ahead to "switch out of safe mode." I have followed the instructions exactly and I'm lead to the Microsoft Store but there is NO option for Win 10 Home. If I search for it, nothing come up. No error messages of any type Any hints? Thanks |
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Win10 S
philo wrote:
My wife just purchased a laptop with Win10 S Home and has given me to go ahead to "switch out of safe mode." I have followed the instructions exactly and I'm lead to the Microsoft Store but there is NO option for Win 10 Home. If I search for it, nothing come up. No error messages of any type Any hints? Thanks Does yours look like any of the pictures here ? https://www.windowscentral.com/surfa...dows-10-s-mode Paul |
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On 8/1/19 1:04 PM, Paul wrote:
philo wrote: My wife just purchased a laptop with Win10 S Home and has given me to go ahead to "switch out of safe mode." I have followed the instructions exactly and I'm lead to the Microsoft Store but there is NO option for Win 10 Home. If I search for it, nothing come up. No error messages of any type Any hints? Thanks Does yours look like any of the pictures here ? https://www.windowscentral.com/surfa...dows-10-s-mode ** Paul OK It's mot a Surface Pro it's a Lenovo but I can follow those exact instructions When I enter s mode or switch out or smode in the search box ( in the Microsoft Store) absolutely nothing comes up in the store I am really stumped |
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Win10 S
When I enter s mode or switch out or smode in the search box ( in the Microsoft Store) absolutely nothing comes up in the store I am really stumped Going to update the machine and try later |
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Win10 S
On 8/1/19 1:18 PM, philo wrote:
When I enter s mode or switch out or smode in the search box ( in the Microsoft Store) absolutely nothing comes up in the store I am really stumped Going to update the machine and try later Updated machine, still no such thing come up in the store. probably going to just manually download the ISO |
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Win10 S
KenW wrote:
philo wrote: My wife just purchased a laptop with Win10 S Home It is a VERY locked down version of Windows 10. Can only install apps from the store until you switch out of S-mode as Paul described, I talked a user through the app store "Get" method this week, on a Galaxy Tab of some description. |
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Win10 S
Paul wrote:
2) Have you verified it won't run an EXE ? ** Like try a portable version of CPUZ or something, ** as a test case. The one I mentioned earlier wouldn't run teamviewer portable when in S-mode 3) Does the owner log into the machine using an MSA ? ** I would think the switch out of S wouldn't need one, ** but I'm trying to cover my bases here. I tried to talk the user through activating without creating an MSA, I know how well MS disguise the option on Win10 Home, but have always found there is a way to bypass the MSA option of you persevere, bit with this S-mode machine (and going by what the user described of each screen) there is no way to avoid creating an MSA, of course I told them to use a throwaway outlook account, and after creating local admin and local user account I trashed the MSA. so it did use the MSA when getting the S-mode "escape" app from the store. |
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On 8/1/19 2:42 PM, Andy Burns wrote:
KenW wrote: philo wrote: My wife just purchased a laptop with Win10 S Home It is a VERY locked down version of Windows 10. Can only install apps from the store until you switch out of S-mode as Paul described, I talked a user through the app store "Get" method this week, on a Galaxy Tab of some description. Unfortunately there was no such option. Going to try manually and if that does not work, perform a fresh install and get it over with |
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Win10 S
philo wrote:
it is supposed to lead me to the store which it does but there is no non- s version available. Machine will not install any exe from out of the store. Will try to manually upgrade. If not, I am just going to perform a fresh install I'd be wary of wiping it and installing "Win10 Home" over "Win10 S" it may refuse to re-activate, how far through the Store process do you get, are you signed in with an MSA? are you signed into the store at all? |
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Win10 S SOLVED
On 8/1/19 7:17 PM, Andy Burns wrote:
philo wrote: it is supposed to lead me to the store which it does but there is no non- s version available. Machine will not install any exe from out of the store. Will try to manually upgrade. If not, I am just going to perform a fresh install I'd be wary of wiping it and installing "Win10 Home" over "Win10 S" it may refuse to re-activate, how far through the Store process do you get, are you signed in with an MSA? are you signed into the store at all? Yes the machine was signed into MSA and indeed signed into the store. Here is what I did. First I tried to update Microsoft Store but it failed. Then I decided to update from version 1809 to 1903 that worked fine but "switch out of "S" mode was still not avail.... however I then /could/ update Microsoft Store Finally Switch out of "S" mode" was available that just took two seconds and now all is well. Typical MS LOL |
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Win10 S SOLVED
philo wrote:
On 8/1/19 7:17 PM, Andy Burns wrote: philo wrote: it is supposed to lead me to the store which it does but there is no non- s version available. Machine will not install any exe from out of the store. Will try to manually upgrade. If not, I am just going to perform a fresh install I'd be wary of wiping it and installing "Win10 Home" over "Win10 S" it may refuse to re-activate, how far through the Store process do you get, are you signed in with an MSA? are you signed into the store at all? Yes the machine was signed into MSA and indeed signed into the store. Here is what I did. First I tried to update Microsoft Store but it failed. Then I decided to update from version 1809 to 1903 that worked fine but "switch out of "S" mode was still not avail.... however I then /could/ update Microsoft Store Finally Switch out of "S" mode" was available that just took two seconds and now all is well. Typical MS LOL Do this in MSEdge: https://support.microsoft.com/en-ca/...-out-of-s-mode ms-windows-sto//switchwindows # then this URI will work to # start the Windows Store. On my test setup, this is the response I got. Install was 1903, but neither activated nor the correct SKU for the "analysis" to work. https://i.postimg.cc/mgs19Z4X/all-I-...his-Tshirt.gif Paul |
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Win10 S SOLVED
On Thu, 1 Aug 2019 20:43:25 -0500, philo wrote:
[...] Yes the machine was signed into MSA and indeed signed into the store. Here is what I did. First I tried to update Microsoft Store but it failed. Then I decided to update from version 1809 to 1903 that worked fine but "switch out of "S" mode was still not avail.... however I then /could/ update Microsoft Store Finally Switch out of "S" mode" was available that just took two seconds and now all is well. Typical MS LOL https://www.windowslatest.com/2019/0...-10-in-s-mode/ |
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Win10 S SOLVED
On 8/1/19 9:31 PM, Paul wrote:
snip is what I did. First I tried to update Microsoft Store but it failed. Then I decided to update from version 1809 to 1903 that worked fine but "switch out of "S" mode was still not avail.... however I then /could/ update Microsoft Store Finally Switch out of "S" mode" was available that just took two seconds and now all is well. Typical MS LOL Do this in MSEdge: https://support.microsoft.com/en-ca/...-out-of-s-mode ** ms-windows-sto//switchwindows*** # then this URI will work to ************************************** # start the Windows Store. On my test setup, this is the response I got. Install was 1903, but neither activated nor the correct SKU for the "analysis" to work. https://i.postimg.cc/mgs19Z4X/all-I-...his-Tshirt.gif ** Paul I had already seen that but it did not work for me. I do not consider this an entire waste of time as the machine would have to been updates to v 1903 anyway |
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Win10 S SOLVED
On 8/2/19 6:15 AM, mechanic wrote:
On Thu, 1 Aug 2019 20:43:25 -0500, philo wrote: [...] Yes the machine was signed into MSA and indeed signed into the store. Here is what I did. First I tried to update Microsoft Store but it failed. Then I decided to update from version 1809 to 1903 that worked fine but "switch out of "S" mode was still not avail.... however I then /could/ update Microsoft Store Finally Switch out of "S" mode" was available that just took two seconds and now all is well. Typical MS LOL https://www.windowslatest.com/2019/0...-10-in-s-mode/ Thanks. I just emailed them and told them my solution |
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