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services like this rely upon the data harvesters and brokers to honor removal requests. honest ones would. but there's tons of them that aren't legit, so it's like using a straw to empty lake superior.

it's a church office, jesus does the legal shit.. and apparently the pc backups, too.

i just set up a new one the 'right' (according to microsoft) way; allowing it on the network and to link to msa right off the bat, during oobe. sure you 'installed' the office (had 365 on that msa)--it was already there, you just 'activated' it. you also messed-up the document libraries, relocating three to onedrive, even though no pc on the msa has ever even had onedrive turned on in the first place. you also linked the edge browser to msa, even though the user has never, ever used edge for anything (user has been using firefox, exclusively, forever).

there were full screen ads more cloud space and for xbox whatever-the-fuck-that-was during 'first boot'.

that's probably the case with the majority of those still using win10 outside of 'enterprise' (corporate managed) environments. those upgrade 'offers' are quite effective at tricking people into the 'upgrade'

you can now set taskbar to ungrouped (unless full) now in win11, as of one of the recent monthly updates. still can't move the taskbar to the left side (my preference on wide screen displays), though.

but no refunds past 30 days into a longer-than-one-month term. pay by the year, cancel 6 months in, you're out half of what you paid. not even converting the 'used' time into a shorter appropriate length term (like a six month plan or 2 quarterly ones...) and refunding some if it..

it's robbery.

cable companies in the u.s. do the same shit, now. no prorated refunds--even on normal monthly billing.

i was called into one office where they bought a backup external, like someone told them to previously. they took it out of the box, set it on the tower. and i guess, that was that. the magic box would now have backups of everything they did.

five years later, i got to tell them that there's nothing on it.

the pc was never configured to run a backup of any kind. hell, the drive was never connected to the pc.

so no backups of their documents, their spreadsheets, their mailing lists, their email, or their quickbooks (that part, they at least ran manual backups of, when prompted by the software, to a flash drive).

thank you, ordis.

i have a client in need of a new laptop to replace an aging windows one with multiple issues. a $280 sale of a 12th gen 1215u with 8gb and 250gb ssd staring at him, and way more than they 'need'. but his wife, a k12 teacher, will insist upon a macbook when she retires and has to give hers back to the district. so they're looking at about $1000 instead, minimum.

step 1 isn't needed for nearly all already-activated windows 10 or 11. microsoft activation servers will 'remember' your pc hardware configuration's hash and its activation state. don't even need to associate the install with a microsoft account either, when reinstalling to the same pc, it just works.

most 'newbies', who just need something to launch a browser these days, wouldn't go past line 2.

and probably more than a few upsells from cross-marketing a yt 'premium' sub to those that came over from satellite for nfl games.