I’m beefing up my laptop (which in any event needs a new cooling fan (sounds like a 737 starting up sometimes) and battery (short charge time and looks a bit lumpy) with a new SSD.
I’ve retrieved the product key just in case, and this is going to be a completely fresh installation using the media creation tool – the other apps as well. The data has been spring cleaned (my, how much rubbish/out of date stuff there was) and what’s left moved to ext HDs.
It’s an ASUS F555L machine, a 3-year-old solid workhorse and jack of all trades, but a tad sssllloooowww. Hence the SSD. I’ve no wish to reintroduce any of AUS’s bloatware and, with so many sequential updates to Windows and other apps, a completely new install instead of cloning has been my preferred method a couple of times over the years.
Cutting to the chase, what is current best practice to achieve a situation where switching on takes me straight to my home page, no login pages with annoying Microsoft photos, or password demands? No-one else will use this unit and any sensitive stuff – tax, finance etc, is in encrypted files so password are just an inconvenience.
I’ve done this a few times over the years and I know methods change. I can’t remember what I did last time, which is why I’m seeking advice on the easiest, most foolproof and efficient way of doing it now. I'd appreciate replies from posters who have actually done it and achieved success rather than the theoretical.
Does anyone remember (or maybe has recently watched) the film 2001? The guy walks in, greets the computer, which immediately responds and, without the need for a touchscreen let alone a mouse, immediately carries out instructions.
Decades on and we’re still far away, in practical terms, from that. Overriding login screes and a password is a start!
I’ve retrieved the product key just in case, and this is going to be a completely fresh installation using the media creation tool – the other apps as well. The data has been spring cleaned (my, how much rubbish/out of date stuff there was) and what’s left moved to ext HDs.
It’s an ASUS F555L machine, a 3-year-old solid workhorse and jack of all trades, but a tad sssllloooowww. Hence the SSD. I’ve no wish to reintroduce any of AUS’s bloatware and, with so many sequential updates to Windows and other apps, a completely new install instead of cloning has been my preferred method a couple of times over the years.
Cutting to the chase, what is current best practice to achieve a situation where switching on takes me straight to my home page, no login pages with annoying Microsoft photos, or password demands? No-one else will use this unit and any sensitive stuff – tax, finance etc, is in encrypted files so password are just an inconvenience.
I’ve done this a few times over the years and I know methods change. I can’t remember what I did last time, which is why I’m seeking advice on the easiest, most foolproof and efficient way of doing it now. I'd appreciate replies from posters who have actually done it and achieved success rather than the theoretical.
Does anyone remember (or maybe has recently watched) the film 2001? The guy walks in, greets the computer, which immediately responds and, without the need for a touchscreen let alone a mouse, immediately carries out instructions.
Decades on and we’re still far away, in practical terms, from that. Overriding login screes and a password is a start!