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Microsoft disabled local account login and forced password change with ZERO notice!
I use strong passwords, and I also use different passwords for all accounts. None of my accounts have been hacked due to my diligence managing my password. I disable Windows Hello, because frankly, it sucks. I do not want it nor do I want my evil twin to login into my computer because AI thinks my dog looks like me. I rebooted my computer to see many times my password for my Microsoft account is incorrect. I triple checked that I entered it correctly to no avail. I could not login. Note that I do not reboot, and my computer remains powered on forever. I rebooted hours ago after some forced Microsoft updates (Microsoft, you still suck at doing this; say what you want about Apple, but Apple does not force updates on me. I choose when to update).
Okay -- I change my password. I try to change it to what it currently is to see a refusal-- this is an previously used password. This is odd. Microsoft, if you are going to force this, it would be nice to share notice before hand. You certainly have all my contact details to warn me before expiring my password, making me change it, and preventing password re-use. My account has never been hacked. Ever. Why? Because I intentionally guard my data and know what I am doing.
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This was a bad Microsoft update that appears to have failed miserably. If you look under C:\Users and see defaultuser1 folder, this shows the update failed and was incomplete. It hosed my local account as a result.
I have something else I wanna add, this is gonna be a straight rant to be honest but honestly, I've never used such a terrible operating system, this morning I just wanted to debug a kernel driver right so I was just gonna do some commands that was allowed and you know Microsoft added and allows you to use
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bcdedit /debug on
bcdedit /dbgsettings serial debugport:1 baudrate:115200"
to my surprise, guess what happens you would never believe it. It brick the entire OS I cannot boot into it anymore and it's completely **bleep**ed up. I don't understand how they've made such a terrible operating system like they must've just spammed ai to make this OS. like if you're gonna force a bunch of crappy AI products in my face at least make the OS good. Using the latest version 25H2 Win 11.
to me it's like they never got finished with Windows 11 and they just decided yeah screw it. Let's just **bleep**ing release it out to the public and let everybody do with our issues. Honestly might be worse than Vista
A couple of notes on this--
This was the result of a recent Windows update. My local Admin account still exists, but Microsoft changed (without my permission) to require Microsoft Account login where they now implement password expiration, prevent password re-use, and other various rules that I never requested they are now forcing upon me. What I did was remove the Microsoft Account association, changed my local account password, and again logged in using my local account. This is Windows 11 Professional, mind you.
I have two Microsoft Accounts. One with my primary email address (where they now are forcing password expiration and re-use rules), and a second for my hotmail email account that I pay for. The Hotmail Microsoft account still uses the same password, and it did not expire. I have had that same password for a long time. Again, it is a strong, secure, and not re-used password (as it should be).
I never asked for this. Why was this broken?
