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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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?

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

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

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/

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

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