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So last night I set up our new Lenovo bargain laptop with Win 11 Home and yes a MS account because it would otherwise have been difficult to switch from Win 11 Home S Mode (can install apps only from the MS Store) to Win 11 Home (can install apps from anywhere).

Now that the laptop is up and running and being tested by staff in my wife’s new office (primarily to run a tiny-label printer of all things), what should I do later if I feel like going “local”?  (FYI The staff’s other three bigger PCs are all Win 10 Pro “local” – I think.)

FYI – On the new Win 11 Home Lenovo Laptop, I installed our last available “user” of our pre-existing MS Office Family 365 (five users total) for $99/year.  So the MS account is also its OneDrive storage account connected to that MS Office Family 365 .  If I go “local” later, will that interfere with the continued connection to the OneDrive storage account?

Thanks.

Well, it looks like I will make my life very complicated by starting out WITHOUT a MS account.

So, in Win 11 Home, if I start with a MS account, can I go to local later?  How?

Thanks.

Later today I will setup a low-capacity Lenovo IdeaPad laptop for limited use in my wife’s SoHo.  It has Win 11 Home SE.  I really want to start with a local account.

First, What are the latest suggestions?

Second, if I want to try the “oobe\bypassnro”, at what point in the initial setup process can I do that, and how DO I do that?

Third, in the initial setup, when will Shift+F10 be available to me?

Fourth, later, if we wish to go to MS account for the first time, how do we do that?

Thanks.

Well – looks like I turned off Bitlocker when we first got these PCs two years ago.  I knew I didn’t want it in the first place and was really annoyed that Dell shipped them with BL on, and so I must have done the right thing when I set them up for my wife’s small office and her then three staffers.

Whew!

It is entirely MS’s fault that the settings are so complicated.  I hope those with local accounts who got locked our of their PCs due to this update get together and SUE THEM.

It is hard to tell, but one one of the PCs that I checked today, Device Encryption might be some type of option, but it seems that also was turned off.  Will double-check next weekend.

PK – Thanks.  And in case I have Device Encryption, where would I find THAT key?

Sorry if this is already answered.

We have three Win 10 Pro 64-bit machines that we activated locally WITHOUT a MS account.  (I vaguely recall that maybe BitLocker is on as originally set by Dell but never actually activated or used to encrypt the disk.)

In any case, without a MS Account for these machines, where would I find the recovery key (if it exists)?  I want to make a copy right away.  Just in case.

And in case I have Device Encryption, where would I find THAT key?

Also, if each PC has two users, is there only one key for the PC or a key for each user?

Thanks.

related Q – do iMacs and MacBooks need anti-virus?

If yes, what would be the Apple equivalent of Avast Free?

Thanks.

JMF Tek – At the end of your oobe\BypassNR O

is that the letter O or a zero?

b – thanks.  I don’t understand why MS would change shortcuts used by millions from one thing to another thing.

I long ago mapped “Paste Unformatted” onto Ctrl + Shift + U on my PC, so I had it.  Why couldn’t MS figure out the same?

 

I’m sort of amazed.

In Word, I have always used Ctrl + Shift + C to copy formatting and then Ctrl + Shift + V to paste that formatting onto existing text, NOT to paste unformatted text.  This has worked for 22 years.

Did something change due to sunspot activity?

 

Mary and mvpjjf – thanks for your suggestion.  Unfortunately, in Word, the add-on doesn’t quite do what Word did many years ago.  It does NOT automatically add my manual correction to AutoCorrect but instead just opens AutoCorrect faster but I must still manually type the wrong spelling and the right spelling.  (See screenshot below.  I had deliberately typed Mitser with the hope of very quickly correcting it to Mister automatically forever.)  By the way, I am doing this at work on MS Professional Plus 2016 on Win 10 Pro.

I recall that Word used to have a very fast right-click option to put the initial correction straight into AutoCorrect, and I used it a lot.  Is there anything similar?

By the way, in Outlook, when I make a new email and hit F7 over a red squiggly line misspelled word, it DOES give me the option of adding the correction to AutoCorrect immediately, although that comes only from hitting F7, not right-clicking.  See second screenshot below.

Now from Outlook:

So, is there any way to get back to what Word had maybe 20 years ago?

Thanks.

In very old Word, there used to be an easy function to permanently store a correction in your AutoCorrect, just a single right-click option away.

So, if I right-clicked foreclsoure to correct it to foreclosure, I would have the immediate single-right-click-step ability to add that correction as a permanent AutoCorrect.

But MS removed that option a long time ago.

Is there any way to get it back?

I just noticed the “Math AutoCorrect” tab in the AutoCorrect Manager, but those abbreviations (starting with \ ) seem not to work on my Word.  Nothing happens.

What am I doing wrong?

UPDATE – I FOUND ANSWER:

• Check the ‘Use Math AutoCorrect rules outside of math regions’ checkbox.
• Then click OK

Thanks.

Deanna – thanks for great article and suggestions.

Just tried it in portable version on my Win 10 Pro 64-bit, and the only mini-snag I see is that, when I exit this new SandBoxie, I get a window that OfficeClickToRun needs to be stopped in order to install.  (I have MS 365 Family for Word and Excel.)  That doesn’t seem right.

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