How To Turn Off Windows S Mode Without Microsoft Account 

unrelated question. Should I upgrade to win 11?

Would Windows S mode allow you to change the registry entry via a .reg file?

@@xerravon it's up to you. It's not as bad as it was but I'm still using Windows 10 on my system.

@@johnrule1607 no, a reg file still needs to use regedit to apply it to the registry.

@@CyberCPU Thanks, yeah I just was hoping for some opinions. Its supposed to be faster but, like you I will not be forced to sign into windows account. thanks again for the video, I learned some new stuff😎

I followed the instructions in the video over 100 times, searched thousands of times, and even sought help from ChatGPT, but nothing worked. However, in the end, a single option that you mentioned in your comment fixed my issue. I was exhausted from searching, but a RU-vid comment helped me. Thank you so much. I wish you a happy and prosperous life.

YOU ARE A SAINT!

bro, I wish I could give you a cake. This stupid s mode, I just can't deactivated it. For some reason my MS store just refused to load even if i have internet connection, already update everything. This simple solution from you works, this comment need to be pin.

Appreciate this, it just worked for me. The push and pull against consumers continues.

THIS COMMENT SHOULD BE PINNED. Took me a while to figure it out but THANK GOD I STUMBLE INTO THIS COMMENT.

It pisses all us older computer nerds off bro, your not alone

Scam mode

Shit mode!

No its for STORE mode which u can install only on MICROSOFT STORE!!!

​@@james.10I dont know but i feel like i had S mode in Surface Go maybe?

No its for STORE mode where u dan only install apps by Store!

Same here. Amazing.

This is my issue how did you disable the securboot?

Thank you like your case it didn't work until I disabled the secureboot. Do I need to enabled it back?

@@jm-vn3ih For the particular machine I left it off, but in my understanding secure boot is meant to protect the system from malicious code launch during system startup (malware). I think secure boot can be turned back on, since it was only necessary to make a system change, but it will not impact anything else.

Thank you mate. I disabled secure boot now works like new❤

Disabling secure boot did the trick for me as well 🎉 thx

That's good logic. relative can't install what they want on the first locked-down system so exchange it for one that is equally restrictive.

Another easy work around is to reinstall using a launch day (2015) Windows 10 CD/USB, they're also backed up on the same website as the wayback machine if you need to download an older version of Windows 10 like that one

I wish I'd had that knowledge 3 months ago. I bought an Acer laptop from Amazon Germany without even knowing that such a thing as S-mode exists. That thing didn't do anything I wanted, but it let me use Bing and access Google, so I found the information I needed to install my good friends Firefox, Thunderbird, LibreOffice, the VLC player, and some more. Hadn't I been working with computers for so many years, I would have returned the machine, or requested help from an expert.

" This "S-Mode" BS is a new level of evil from Microsoft." Preach it brother! I think it's almost an unfair trade practice. Now we know were Microsoft is going with this!

@@My_Old_YT_Account HAHAHAA NO WIn 7. always better

Bill Gates is corrupt and was making money on trying to force people to get sars vax.

learn their lesson? from what? the 90's antitrust case that they won the fk out of?

thats why i had changed to linux

The lesson was they could do what they want and get away with it.

And that’s why I switched to a Mac book pro (macOS)

Decades ago was Win 3.1 or 95, neither of which were worth getting excited about....,

Keep it up! It's a very lucrative field for people with the patience to learn it. And starting young you'll have plenty of time to advance your career. What's more you really don't need to go to college either. Work experience trumps everything else. If you start out working the servicedesk for a few years it'll give you the experience you need to sell yourself and your skills. I went to community college, majored in Computer Science, but never finished my degree. Now I've got student loan debt and I haven't even needed a degree to work in IT. Don't get me wrong, college is a good route for some careers. Or if you want to get a formal education for personal edification. I think there is still a real value there. But way too many people take on student debt just to have a piece of paper in an oversaturated field that doesn't get them a great job. In IT there are a few places where a degree will help you move up. But I wouldn't say it's required. Most places are looking for experience above all. A few things that can help you land a great job, put your relevant hobbies and projects on your resume/CV. Not just random hobbies, but if you wrote a program, if you did a cool tech related project, if you coded an app, put that on your resume! If it's something that could be translated into your work in the IT workplace, put it on the resume. Then once you've got the number of years experience to back you up, no one will be asking about your college degree.

Glad it helped

What is he saying to type

If it's not ion every version, then it's not a better way.

​@@OriginalMergatroid😂😂😂

Which debloater did you use? Looking for one...

@@alexoja2918 I used TIW11 (This Is Windows 11) and O&O Shutup10++. Also some additional tweaking with Winaero Tweaker.

@@neumanix456 Thanks!

Office 2007 is the Last 1 I'd Use. I Disabled Windows update completely in 11 and haven't had an issue at all. I have a means of updating via powershell with only Updates I specify.

And I thought I was way behind still using Office 2003... :)

@@richardwernst I just want to type a report, not be assaulted by app helps and popups. I've also has a lot better success with Word 2000 document recovery than many others.

@@richardwernst I have a dual-boot Windows 7/Windows 10. My original Windows 7 Ultimate (before installing 10 Pro on a separate SSD) has Office 2003.

And there is me on office 2013 😂

It only comes on extremely cheap PCs like the ones you pick up at Walmart. So I don't think enough people are annoyed with it to make it as big of a deal.

@@CyberCPU sometimes a System that came with 10/11 without S mode enabled may receive a update that causes S Mode to be forced on...

@@shadowopsairman1583 I've never seen that before. However, that would be really shifty.

We don't do anti-trust cases anymore. The government lets the big tech companies do whatever they want.

@@administrator4728 You are thinking of iOS and the App Store. However, they are not exerting as strict single-vendor control over the app ecosystem on the iPhone as Microsoft is doing on Windows S Mode; you can get and use alternatives to the browser and media player, etc. from vendors other than Apple.

did not work for me

Does not work,.option isnt there

Glad it helped.

I always just wipe the drive and install a KMS patched version of windows pro with office 2022 But this is handy to note, and love watching these videos. MS and gates are so corrupt, remember the homebrew when they encouraged people to pirate, that was until it affected their own bank accounts.

@@CrashedIntoTube typically reloading the system won't disable S Mode. I'm not sure how they do it. I think it's part of the activation.

@@CyberCPU The KMS online patch worked for me Maybe it has to do with what motherboard is in the system and the bios version loaded, so you could be right that my way may not always work I just did this action on a asus laptop someone bought from best buy. It had win 11 S mode, and I changed the bios settings, wiped the hard drive and reformatted it, then installed win 10 pro and activated it with KMS I wouldn't recommend win 11 to anyone, that's why I use win 10 and install O&O shutup

@@CrashedIntoTube ohh, I see. I didn't even realize we were talking about a crack. I have to use legitimate activations on my customers systems. I don't spend any time looking into activation cracks. That may solve the problem but I would be careful. Many of those kinds of software are used to spread malware. Malware makers will use the same name and promise the same functionality but instead install malware on your system. A license key for Windows is pretty cheap. I have a video on one of the really cheap license websites that I've used in the past and had good luck with. I would recommend checking it out.

I've installed office 2010 in Windows 11 before. In fact a few times before.

@@CyberCPU - Thanks, I'll try it again. I rally miss it as I've used it for years and could do things without thinking about it.

This move by MS will drive more people to use Linux. In 2 years from now there will be 700 different linux distros & 16 different desktop environments, but even fewer people working on fixing bugs.🤣🤣

@@CyberCPU - my previous install fails as does an attempted reinstall.

@@brentsummers7377 Windows 10 drove me back to Linux LOL But since I like to play games, I kinda have to keep using Micro$hit for a few of them while compatibility is worked on

This mode with that information, turns these "laptops" (with S-mode enabled) into an Edgebook, the Windows cousin to the Chromebook. Just the fact that Edge is now a Chomium fork like Google Chrome itself makes this even more true with that mode turned on. My theory is, if these particular "cheap" Edgebooks were supposed to be sold to educational institutions (Elementary/Primary, Middle/Jr High, and High School, not including tertiary education because you can just bring the laptop from home [unless the student or their parents bought one of these Edgebooks thinking it could install external apps], to school) in bulk as a competing option to a Chromebook. I point out those three levels of school because those are the ones I think are the most restrictive in terms of how students should be using them. If a college student were to use one, pandemonium would ensue.

I already did. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-TyxqEoWaBMU.html

Glad it helped.

You can enable secure boot. However, leave the registry the same or it will go back into S mode.

thanks for this, worked for me as well

Thanks man I had to do the same thing on my new Asus.

Glad it was helpful.

Better to just give em an Android tablet..

good luck teaching your granny typing on a tablet xD

Doesn't work for me

I didn't test PS but I assume if you can't run CMD then you likely can't run PS ether. They've essentially disabled anything that has to do with administration and don't let you install any apps outside of the Windows store. In the video I enabled S Mode on Windows 11 Pro just so I would have something to do the example on. However, according to Microsoft Windows 11 Pro S Mode doesn't exist. S mode only comes as home edition.

@@CyberCPU I can confirm no on powershell

@@itstheweirdguy yeah, I figured. That would be a pretty big oversight of Microsoft allowed PS and not CMD. Theoretically you could use PS to modify the registry and I believe the reason why they don't allow you to use those programs is so you can't take the system out of S Mode.

@@CyberCPU Wouldn't it work to go into audit mode and make the registry change, then put it back into oobe..I need to try this. Could save time, even though you can really only do it right after you install windows or buy a new computer and turn it on.

@@itstheweirdguy That's actually a great suggestion. I hadn't thought of that. If you try it, let me know if it works. I may make another video on it.

Thank you.

I believe MS also wants people using MS accounts so they can push other services on to you, Google style.

what bout android phone with Google account?

Bing search instead of just searching your computer, news in the taskbar, all of this stuff is an attempt to make a functional tool into a service.

@@TheZaman_ the difference is that Google lets you skip signing in on setup and the phone will still work even if you won't have access to various apps and features without signing in.

@@Lemurion287 who say windows can't do the same?

You don't need a Google account to download and install apps on Android you can easily download them from somewhere else and install them after enabling a setting in settings

and theyre the reason why S mode was created in the first place

Yep it's true, just re-bought my old-ass phone which runs android 4.4.2, google services are broken as hell on it, and so is the Google Play Store - got all my old 3rd party apps back by just downloading the apks and installing them. So no, they don't all "do the same thing".

Did you ever get it figured out? I’ve been trying all day to take mine out of a mode

Did you try this for a range of different devices?/ Did this work for anyone else?

@@mohamedsafwaangulamrasoolyes

Didn't work for me

Going to "startup settings" from the recovery mode, and choosing option 7 does temporarily disable S Mode, but editing the registry doesn't seem to stick because after a reboot, S Mode is back on. (2022 Lenovo IdeaPad Flex 5 i3-1215u, running 21H2)

@@ZacSixChip this worked for me too (also on a 2022 Lenovo IdeaPad Flex) I didn't have to go into the registry at all.

Linux is not really user friendly - sorry man. Plus lots of missing software (or, software that is Windows only, doesn't run on Linux), and a ton of dicking around in the terminal. So much more can be said... but I'll stop here. But man, I thought UAC on Windows was silly until I used Linux - nothing is easier than just opening an administrative CMD, and then everything you do in that CMD window gets admin rights, that's one I'll remember for a while lol.

@@andreivaughn1468 Linux not user friendly… Hogwash, if you’re using something like Mint. As for missing software, it definitely depends on your needs. Programmers are spoilt and gamers on the up though still behind Windows. My feeling is that most of those that don’t like Linux are gamers or Adobe users. Oh and my dad and sister use Linux mint and my sister has never used the terminal.

@@Jenny_Digital Hogwash, really? I don't consider a fully functioning browser the bare minimum requirement for an OS to be useable. Small list of software I use which (I think) doesn't exist on Linux: Foobar2000 Exact Audio Copy iZotope RX8 BES CPU limiter (really important sometimes) Speedfan Directshow(?) Everything search ...and you might laugh, but Microsoft Office Picture Manager, which is still the easiest way to manipulate images (precisely crop, rotate, adjust change contrast, etc) And that's just if we're being generous, if we're not being generous, let's also include: Photoshop (which GIMP is really not an alternative to, I know because I use both) A bunch of games from the 2003-2013 era (not through Steam, because I actually like to own my games) ...And there's probably a few more things in that list, just because you don't use something *every day* doesn't mean it's not useful to have. Sure, some of those can be resolved with Wine, but seriously - I've used Wine before (I also have a Mac) and it's not a perfect solution in the slightest. For all the other ones, it would be accepting losing a bunch of stuff you like and are used to, and settling with alternatives that can carry out the same tasks. Sorry for the rant, but sure, if someone barely does anything specialised, they should be fine on Linux, or someone that's just getting into computing, and doesn't have a bunch of workflows, preferences, habits, and preferred software. But for someone that's used Windows for 10+ years, sorry dude, it might be to late for me.

@@andreivaughn1468 I’m sorry you feel this way, but I really do use my computers for genuine serious stuff and get on fine. There are issues with any OS and as for barely functioning except for a browser, that’s just not fair. I suspect you may have struggled to learn a different workflow and said ‘too hard, don’t bother’ but really, any change of scenery will have some of that effect. I walked away from Microsoft Windows after the W10 betrayal and sure I had to learn some new stuff but now I could hardly remember a better move. Oh and I’m just guessing here, but aren’t you maybe an artist of some kind who might be better off on Mac? I say this because the computer you choose is definitely determined by what you do with it and I _code_.

I've done that before too. Just reinstalled Windows to try and get around S Mode. Not sure how Microsoft does that one. However, it's really shifty. It must be some interaction that takes place during activation at first boot.

If I remember correctly entering the non-S kms key can also fix it

@@My_Old_YT_Account Technically that's a version upgrade, you can upgrade any Windows version to a more expensive one.

Same here

I just followed this and while it was still in S mode, I was finally able to go thru the store and switch out of S mode

Shut off the damn updater.

I followed his steps exactly and it worked for me

That's unusual. Typically S Mode comes on the sub $400 systems that have hardware specks that I typically wouldn't even run Windows 10 on.

Same here! I tried 3 times, didn't work.

Me too. Looks like it no longer works.

Anyone know a fix ???

Same here

Yes, you can convert a Microsoft account to a local account from your account settings.

@@CyberCPU That could be a video topic for you... Some people need step-by-step instructions performed visually just because they've been trained to second guess their thoughts, actions and decisions.

@@CyberCPU Is there any downside to creating a Microsoft account, then converting it to a local account? Thanks for the great videos!!!

@@PureMagma maybe I'll try to put something together with lots of different tips in one video. Unfortunately that one would only take like 1 minute. It wouldn't be long enough for a video by itself.

@@BABA-ws5eo I have seen some issues with converting a Microsoft account to a local account if the Microsoft account was the systems only administrator account. It simply won't allow you to change it to a local account. This is a rare occurrence but I have seen it quite a few times.

Yeah, s mode is annoying.

@@CyberCPU hi it worked thanks

Sem me mi not work

Scroll down to @snake5936 comment… you need to do this extra step in bios for it to work.

Your comment helped me out a lot!!! Thank you. Got mine working.

@@LumeiryRodriguezGonzalez Anytime! Glad to help! 👌🏻

Same, here, and the tech basically told me I’d have to wait for an update to fix it. Have you had any problems downloading apps from the Microsoft store since doing this?

@@KJPicklesdid you find a way to get out of S mode?