Windows 10: Recovering MS-account: Required for security purposes it reads: "You've requested too many...

So anybody willing to offer help ?Dutch preferred, but no prerequisite.

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Ridiculous installation requirement

Let's make this very clear: The "issue" Wolfgang had is basically not an issue, it's an added security measure when using an MS Account to sign in to Windows 8 or later. On the contrary to what you said it has everything to do with MS Account's added security features.
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Conclusion: There's no way to avoid the security code being asked when setting up an MS Account as Windows sign in account. Naturally, a local account has no added security and the security code will not be asked. If you choose to use an MS Account for sign in to Windows, the code will be asked whether you have two-step verification turned on or off. My recommendation is to edit your MS Account security settings by adding a mobile phone number before installing Windows 8 or later using your MS Account for sign in. This allows you to receive the code per text message instead of an email, making the installation easy also when you only have one computer and cannot receive the code per email.

Kari Ah, good stuff Kari. As always thank you for taking the time to research and test to those depths.

I think your conclusion supports my statement that the process has nothing to do with 2-step verification at install time.

Please consider the following

• the install process, as it stands, initially prompts you to create a MS account
  there are ways that are documented to create a local account but it is not intuitive during the installation process
• 2 step verification requires user action to enable it
  the feature has not enabled at this point - the account is being newly created
• installing Windows does not require a MS account
• a MS account can be created with any eMail address (Yahoo, Gmail, your own domain)
• the code is sent to an alternate eMaill account which you cannot access if you only have one device (until the install is complete), or
• The code sent to your phone is in the form of a text msg, but not all cell phones support. Not everyone has a cell phone.

The current process to install Windows has an extra security step if you choose to use a MS Account as your primary login. The install process weighs heavily on creating a MS account - the average user won't have the experience to differentiate what they need to do. They'll follow what's right in front of them and miss the ambiguous alternative offered to create a local account. Too many people don't read the message on the screen that tells them exactly what the problem is - this is not that case ... the dialog window obfuscates the alternate Local account option.

The subject of this thread is ridiculous installation requirement, for the purpose of this discussion my emphasis is on installing Windows. I think MS would be better served if the extra step was after Windows is installed and on your first login to the MS account much like the Last test scenario (above Conclusion) in your post.

I'll take it one step further and suggest that a local account should take precedence at install time and prompt you for a MS account login after the install is completed, the machine is up and running and you can access the Internet in order to complete any steps MS deems necessary.

I think the issue is many-fold. Sure it's been around since Win8 and is documented many places, that doesn't mean it's a non-issue.

I enjoy reading your posts Kari and appreciate the effort you put in to making them accurate.
I think we're just looking at this from different perspectives. To put it simply, I don't accept the premise of requiring a MS account login to install Windows on a desktop/laptop machine. I will stipulate that it needs to be an option, just not the primary option.

I'm sure we could debate this further, but that won't change anything of great consequence. The only thing I would like to clear up is your two seemingly contradictory statements.
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not receiving Security code to recover microsoft id

I forgot my password and am trying to recover my account. MS Help is NOT texting or calling. The reset page sent was not available and this information is over a year old obviously something has changed. It shouldn't be such a circuitous route to changing
your password. My bank is able to text or call or ask security questions. Why isn't MS texting or calling the numbers listed for my account appear to be correct.

Sorry, the page you requested is not available.

 

What is the purpose of reading list in Edge?

I am on a Lumia 650 using W10 Mobile with anniversary update.

I cannot figure out what the purpose of the "reading list" feature is in Microsoft Edge. I assumed it was to save articles/pages for offline reading. However, I have tested this and nothing I save in the reading list is available offline. Can someone explain
what the purpose of the reading list is?