Windows 10: Windows 10 feedback with "LOCAL ACCOUNT"

apparently there is no way to send feedback with a Local account,.
I refuse to have an account where I log into the cloud each time I use many of my windows 10 systems. *Confused

Have you noticed that WINDOWS 10 keeps resetting your default programs.
JUST BECAUSE IT WANTS TO *Mad

Default Browser - I use firefox
Default photo viewer - I use Irfanview or Picasa
Default video viewer - I use VLC
etc etc

These keep getting reset and since I use local accounts I can find now way to tell MS that I hate having to keep resetting these in the default settings. *Mad

wg

:)

 

" SOFTWARE UPDATE FAILED "

SO HERE'S THE LINK TO THAT PIC

http://i26.tinypic.com/2ihbdco.jpg

CAN U PLZ CHECK IT ACTUALLY I HAVE USED THE NOKIA SOFTWARE UPDATER B4 ... BUT I DONT KNW WHY I M GETTING THIS ERROR NOW

 

" SOFTWARE UPDATE FAILED "

i have installed windows xp sp2

previously i was using windows media center i thought i might b facing this probs due to that but then i changed it to windows xp ! n moreover i have also shown to nokia service center executives but they were not having the latest updates available ......
my pc suite is showing that new update version of firmware is available but i cudnt download it

oh gawd wat to do ?

i tried in another pc then again i got an error u need to have minimum 256 ram

please cant it b rectified ? there must b any solution to this probs please help me guyz

god bless all of u thanx

 

Just did it again about an hour after I reset them.
I need to stop this. Any clue's out there for how to stop this?

 

Doesn't reset mine. They are the same now as when I set them after install TH2.

Are you using Control Panel, Default Programs to set them? If not, try it.

 

doesn't mean that you are going to convince me to use your undone applications. My default apps are being reset every hour on my windows 10 systems. And I can't complain directly because I have "Local" accounts rather than logging into your cloud.. Stop trying to tell me how to use my systems. I'm a professional who has used computers for 40 years.

Your apps aren't done yet:
Photos? Compare with Picasa or Irfanview
Browser? Compare with chrome or firefox.
Videos? Compare with VLC. No, I don't want to sign up for your video service. Thanks very much.

Leave my defaults alone when I set them.
I installed your windows 10. Now leave me alone. Just keep it up to date for security flaws and stop the continual "Up-Sell". I'm sick of it.
I know how to use Linux and do so wherever I can.

*Mad
wg

 

What exactly are you trying to say by this?

In order to send feedback through Windows Feedback app you have to log into the Freedback app using an online account. This is natural and this is expected.

However, you don't have to convert your local Windows account into an online account. Your Windows account remains local, you just log into the Feedback app (and only into Feedback app) using an online account.

That's how all apps that require login work. They give you a choice of either 1) converting your entire Windows user account into an online account, or b) keeping your Windows user account local and using online account just for specific apps.

 

Lets make this clear. Your problem is not Windows, is not a bug in Windows. You have something that is running in the background that is making these changes. It is NOT normal for these settings to be reverting every hour. What you should be doing is finding what is causing this issue to happen, instead of complaining about something completely unrelated.

 

I was quite sure that MS thinks this sort of behavior is not a bug, but a feature. This is in keeping with the recent nonsense around the forced Windows 10 upgrades that have been in the news.
Seriously? Malware that sets the default apps back to the Windows 10 default apps?
Well it seems to me that Windows 10 Defender would have no reason to remove that one.
I have no idea even where to begin looking for that one. Recall it's not just the app for one set of file types, but many at once. Any help would be appreciated. Or some regedit policy edits that make this nonsense go away, more likely. I'm sure enterprises don't have to put up with this happening. I have several systems on Win10 and they all do this on varying schedules. But I'm only infuriated by the one that I use all the time.

Just to catch everyone else up. Yes, every time this happens I use cortana to search for Default Applications and use the new windows 10 control panel to set them the way I want. And then sometime later, yesterday it was on every hour or so at least, alerts begin popping up saying that default programs were set. and back they go to the defaults.

wg

 

I agree. From my understanding and experience you have to be logged into your MS account so you can be identified as a valid user of 10 before you submit any feedback. And this applies to all paths.

This can only happen with an update from MS and that's been addressed in the latest insider builds So that will not be an issue after 7/29.

 

Are you using a local or MS account when this occurs??
And is this occurring after a KB update for a cumulative update??

 

I've been using Windows 10 since the middle of last year and my default programs are the same now as they were when I set them. FWIW, Chrome is my default browser although I occasionally use Windows Explorer.

 

Start by looking through Task Scheduler, see what's set to run every hour or so.

I was given this in a recent threade I was working: Task Scheduler Viewer for Windows 10/7/8/Vista

Great for looking at Scheduled tasks.

 

I'm fairly certain that AndreyT is correct
In order to send feedback through Windows Feedback app you have to log into the Freedback app using an online account. This is natural and this is expected.

However, you don't have to convert your local Windows account into an online account. Your Windows account remains local, you just log into the Feedback app (and only into Feedback app) using an online account.
I'm going to back you up on this though ... for about a month some setting son my machines (both Win8.1 and Win10) were getting reset to default (File Explorer view & Time). It too drove me crazy (Malware...Updates, Sched Maint...???)

I kept checking my settings and correcting them, then about a week later .... had to do it again. I originally thought it might be the appraiser pgm, but then time was defaulted to Pacific ... The two could be unrelated bc there was a cumulative update on tyhe ten machine. Still for both issues to be resolved by WU - well, what can I say?

I don't think I did anything to resolve it and I've been keeping an eye on my View and time ... so far so good.

The only things that changed were by WU ... I did notice a Sched Task: Time that was not running, but even launching that by hand did not help it. I ran Internet time - nope didn't help. I changed the time service from Windows to nist, updated and that seemed to fix the sched task - it ran successfully one the next cycle.

So, what can the user do?
Run WU manually
Make sure your date and time is set correctly and internet time updates - try using the nist time server

That's all I have.

 

Here's what I get in notifications when this happens.

I looked in system event viewer. Didn't see anything that indicated a likely problem. But of course I could have missed something there.
For my usage and having 4 Win 10 machines, running WU manually is a bridge too far.