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Anyone familiar with windows 8? Help?!
 

I just got a new computer which has windows 8, i have about 5 windows accounts made on it right now.
When i try to make another it doesnt ask me all the questions, like password, and when i try and log in it asks me a password and says i need to go to windowslive.com... Why???
Can i not have more than 5 windows?

go back to 7. Windows 8 only good touch screen and not so much for the rest.
but sorry don't have an answer to your question. Do you provide an email address when you register a new user? I know windows 8 asks for one and that is how it identifies you. maybe the password for the email?

Yeah Windows 8 doesnt look that straight forward for stealth at a first glance...

I'm sure their are workarounds though!

Got a couple new ones myself with this stupid Windows 8 on it.

Found a way around it.

Choose one account as administrator and password.

Go to desktop. It will be in lower left hand corner of the apps section.


Go to Control Panel on your desktop.

Add new user

Add name of user

At the bottom is says continue without microsoft account, create local account.

Put name in, do not add password, leave blank.

Click through until you get to your apps and click desktop in lower left corner.

Microsoft is forcing us to have and add these live accounts but you dont need it and can bypass it.

Good luck.

Avoid anything of Gates if possible.

Be really careful of 'new'. Ensure you do not change procedures. Watch for bugs.

Will sticky the thread for all info regarding this.

I agree, they are sucking every bit of info they can from us just like google.

Yep that's right windows 8 is not for stealth:)

Stick with windows 7 or xp i like them both:)

Hopefully cookies arent shared between the users too....

From the 5 minutes I spent on my girlfriends laptop with Windows 8 I wasnt relishing the thought of upgrading.

Windows 7 for a while me thinks....

With Windows 7 Pro and higher versions you can install XP on a virtual desktop or virtual machine. If your OS is legit you can download the XP software directly from Mr. Soft's website for free. Boom, 2 OS's within 1.

If they were I would have a ton of toasted accounts as I have used it for a while now.

So far, all good.

Thanks for the comments!
I had to youtube a few things just to figure out how to work it! :x
Its definitely more work for stealth even to just open another user account.
Why do you guys think its harder to get rid of cookies on windows 8?
I still use CCleaner and clean out cookies/cache every time I log into a diff, just to be safe!

So far not a problem with the pita windows 8, after you get through the windows trying to force you took hook up all those hotmail account you are good to go.

By pass that crap by using local only.

Then the apps, they are driving me nuts as well. Stating to dump them as fast as I have time.

Lol. Funny to see that they integrated that little feature but as far as the worries and extra precautions? Yeah, nah i dont think microsoft is going to actually do any teaming up with Ebay, or generally any extra looking over our shoulders... windows 8 will be on all new machines so be prepared for it.

Reformatting to win7 or running a virtual machine is... a really serious workaround for something not so serious. :p I assumed there would be a much simpler workaround before I read it further down in the thread.

win7>win8

enough said

How do you figure NeedHelp?

Possibly NeedHelp has read the thread, done some experiments and came to that decison

Quite possible - guess I will take it to PMs - experienced insight is always good

Oh, then you could come back and report your findings?

that would work well....

I can see the thread title now.............

rsot leaves FireFox finally, confessions of a faithful follower

:cheer:

Windows 8 is almost the same windows 7 except Metro Start Menu.
If you don't hit "Windows" button and go to desktop mode, there is no difference between 7 and 8.
For me, I use VM (VMware) for each account, so I use my accounts as long as I can install VMware to run my VMs. My tiny laptop run Core i7 and has 8GB RAM, 256GB SSD, so VMs XP won't be a problem.

If I can figure it out being very non techy anyone can.

Working fine once I figured out how to stop Gates world from forcing me to sign into every user account.

Im finding it easy to work with for stealth purposes

How many user accts do u have on a single laptop Sandy D and will it slow down your pc having many user accts?

Yes it will slow you down a lot. I had to remove a few from a piece of crap Toshiba laptop as it really slowed it down once I got to a certain number.

I cant remember exactly but I think its over 30 on one and closer to 40 maybe.

I have a string of laptops and a few towers in an bedroom office.

I dont think ill need that many, 10-15 would work for me

I understand sandy has a lot since he is also accts seller

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Just started selling accounts a couple weeks ago. Had hundreds made long before I decided to sell any.

And it is a she.

You have to be prepared and have plenty of back ups.

Even if you dont use them I like to sock drawer many for the future.

Guess for the purpose of simple stealth (computer just used for business only) I will stick with Win Xp and avoid the learning curve.

Oh god I hate Windows 8 with a passion. Stick with Windows 7.

Microsoft is going down.

It is really not that bad once you get past the gates crap of signing into a windows account.

Use local with password and bypass all the other stuff.

At the front of the line up of apps (most are useless) left hand corner bottom takes you to your desktop.

Done.

As I said, there is not much differences between Windows 7 and 8 except Start Menu.
Since Windows 8 was developed with touch in mind, so they changed start menu to Metro type.
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You guys are making me nervous. I just ordered a new desktop and it has Windows 8. I hope there's no problems with windows user accounts. I usually have about 50 on each computer.

Have you read my above comments?

I have made 100s of accounts using it and not a single issue as far as the accounts.

Once you get past the gates like info sucking you can run very quick.

Basically, you can have as many accounts as you want, but they will definitely slow your computer down.
I am sure any OS was developed with in mind that there would be not so much users sharing a single computer.
Anyway, if you want that much accounts, I would suggest you should replace HD to SSD for better data bandwidth between ram and drives.

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My first look with windows 8 was with a new laptop I sold. I offered to set it up and configure it. It kept loading that funky menu. It didnt have a start menu. I swear I played around with it for 30-40mins thinking that crap was some kind of software the manufacture installed. I couldnt find a way to "uninstall it" or stop it from loading. I finally gave up and did some googling and it turned out, that is the new windows. Not a big fan at all.

Bottom left hand corner will take you back to what we are used to seeing the the old desktop. Pay no attention to the apps that come up.

Go right to the old desktop by clicking the area showing the desktop.

It's been 2 days now and it's growing on me.

As you said, no problems with creating accounts. Just make it a local account with a Microsoft user, no problem.

The only thing I don't like about it so far is having to constantly switch to desktop mode every time I want to access a program. Little bit of a hassle. I can see where it'd be helpful if you used a touchscreen, but I do all my work on a desktop, and how many people really use a touchscreen for a desktop?

Ill keep my xp. If it's not broke then don't fix it.

I have one HP touchscreen and it is ok, nothing special.

I believe access to programs is also a pita. But once I am on a program I use I put a short cut on the desktop.

Re: Anyone familiar with windows 8? Help?!
 

Big fail with win 8. Should have only been released with touch screen devices . Just got a new laptop and had to find one that came with win 7

I agree.

Another stupid move by some of the smartest people in the world.

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How about create shortcuts for your programs on desktop or taskbar

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