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So he decided to give you and all of us the run around by having the customer service team respond to you? How classy.

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Maybe sending the letter and survey results to Nadella himself on the various social media platforms would help. Probably not though, he probably doesn’t personally manage those.

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johnf

No doubt some of this adoption has to do with the annoying pop up (Would you like to install chrome? Want a faster way to explore the web? blah,blah,blah) if you use google as your main search engine. Some just install it to get Google to shut up about it already.

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SueW, Cybertooth, HiFlyer

I second going the VM route. Try out which OS works best for you and you can easily change it later. I am considering running a version of Linux as my main OS and having multiple virtual machines with Windows. Mac is way overpriced and too proprietary for what it is in my opinion.

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Lugh

This is what I was getting at. If you boot from a system disc, the sticky keys route will allow you to create a new administrator from an elevated (admin) command prompt. You would be able to log in with this newly created admin and fix the old one. Like another poster said, it’s not easy to explain all the steps thoroughly.

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This can be accomplished with sticky keys. It’s a nice trick for those who are familiar with the cmd line. You will need a Win XP/7/10 disc. Lots of documentation on it if you google it. Once you have the sticky keys exploit in place, you can create an administrator account from the cmd line with the following commands:

net user /add [username] [password]

new localgroup administrators [username] /add

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GoneToPlaid

I use this tool frequently. psexec is the one I use the most, very handy for deploying scripts,  commands, and some basic installs , to remote machines.

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Debit cards have the same protection as credit cards if they both are a Visa. Read the fine print, it is there. The only difference is the process of how they deal with it. With a credit card you dispute the charges and they remove them fairly quick. With a debit card the bank will not allow access to your account while they are dealing with the fraud on your account. It is a little more of a hassle with a debit card, you still get your money back though, usually within a 2-3 business days.

If you don’t like credit cards, have multiple banks. In this case if you become the victim of identity theft you always have your other bank to access funds while the other bank straightens out your account. Prepaid visa cards work well too for online purchases if you don’t want to use a debit card.

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