Windows 10: MS Arrogance and MAJOR ISSUE

Greg CarmackIndependent AdvisorReplied on February 12, 2020Report abuseHi Ruth. I'm Greg, an installation specialist, 10 years Windows MVP, and Volunteer Moderator here to help you.OneDrive introduced some features recently that were set as default for some users without their knowledge, so be aware and adjust as necessary:If the new Backup/Folder Protection is chosen in OneDrive Settings > Backup Tab, then Documents, Desktop and/or Pictures folders will be moved into the OneDrive folder. See Folder Protection details here to change this or read more:https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/1160

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MS arrogant or dumb?

My sister forgot her live id. She's no geek and it happens all the time.

I backed up her photos but could not back up her contacts on her lumia 8.1 phone. There are apps but you need to sign in with the live id of course...

MS have a recovery process but her regiistered email address must have a typo as it never came. So we tried the alternative recovery. Webform asks all sorts of questions about the live id usage - emails sent, previous passwords, xbox credit card etc, assuming
that all phone users use their live id email to run their entire lives. Obviously.

But like so many real people, she never does. And why should she? MS forces you to use a live account on the phone but that doesn't mean you should drop you old email address of 10+ years.

Is MS just dumb or arrogant? They suggest recovery from a lost password is by resetting the phone, which wipes all data. If you back it up to their cloud you're fine of course - but you need that password. I think it was Windows 95 or maybe 3.1 where they
had a recovery process that needed a reboot that prevented the recovery process completing and you had to start again, then it rebooted again. Ad infinitum. It appears MS have not really learned much since then. 640k....

So, I understand MS will not allow live id to be changed without a full wipe and reset, so is there a way to export the contacts without an inaccesible app and preferably not one by one? She has over 100. Is MS determined to keep us in the 1990s?

thanks for any help

ps If anyone is thinking about preaching, please don't. It's too easy to type, but everybody knows it already and it's just arrogant. Sometimes things go wrong.

 

AMD FX OC'ers Club

That's what the auto setting will do since you're over the 1333 mark it jumps to the next step which isn't listed or officially supported I assume by that ram.

At this point though I would suggest dropping the multi one step or .5 so that we can get something stable and possibly take the heat issue out of the picture for now.

 

The despotic arrogance of Microsoft  

This, right. . . ?

It seems to still be here, too. . . . *Think

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