You’ve bypassed Microsoft’s account requirement using a third party hack, and are now trying to access a Windows service that requires an account.
What did you expect to happen?
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Submitted 5 hours ago by ayta@lemmy.world to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
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superkret@feddit.org 5 hours ago
earphone843@sh.itjust.works 4 hours ago
I love how confidently incorrect you are. There’s no 3rd party hack required to bypass the Microsoft account login/sign up requirement. You just do the initial set up of the computer without connecting it to the internet.
slazer2au@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
You will likely have to login to the store to download things from it.
ayta@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
[deleted]earphone843@sh.itjust.works 4 hours ago
It will intertwine your entire PC with the Microsoft account.
deadite9@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
You should be able to sign in to just the store app by clicking a tiny little box on the subsequent window that pops up during the sign-in process. That’s how I sign in to the store for app downloads without having to use those same credentials to sign in to the PC.
That box is intentionally made small and easy to miss because they obviously want you to use a MS account across the whole machine, but it’s there if you move slowly and look for it.
That said, you shouldn’t have to sign in to download any app updates from the store. You can also download new apps without signing in-- the license will just be tied to the machine instead of your personal account if you do that.
This unhelpful error is just MS being MS. Best option is usually just to leave it be and check back later, as it oftentimes really is a problem on their end.
DrFistington@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
It’s saying that it can’t authenticate something. Probably a certificate or encrypted passkey of some type
jayb151@piefed.social 3 hours ago
I mean, What are you trying to download and can you get it from other channels? MS store has been rather hit or miss for me, and you can typically find it elsewhere....and if you can't find it elsewhere, there are still ways to get it from the store without using the store
neidu3@sh.itjust.works 5 hours ago
It’s a Microsoft error. Nobody will ever know. Ask your system administrator for more info.
ayta@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
neidu3@sh.itjust.works 5 hours ago
And yet windows errors will frequently suggest you contact your system administrator. At least older windows versions begavede this way.
xmunk@sh.itjust.works 4 hours ago
Then contact your personal administrator. By default that’s Satya Nadella.