After I upgraded to Win 10 from Win 8.1, I wiped my program drive using diskpart's "clean" command and set the drive to GPT. I then did I clean install using a disk made from the MSFT ISO. I used a local account and disconnected the internet while I installed. I have used the system for about a week now and have not had any major problems.
Yesterday, I decided to get rid of the lock screen, so I did so using Registry changes found in Microsoft's forums. I rebooted the system and the lock screen was no more. The log-in screen appeared but changed to my Microsoft account instead of my local account. I had not touched anything related to my account settings and I had never set up my MFST account in this install. (I know they are linked as a result of activation.). I changed it back to local but Win treated it like I was setting up a new account.
After logging in, the desktop background had changed from the default to a picture (part of a slideshow) I had used as background in the Win 8.1 install that I upgraded but was wiped away with "clean". This picture is located within several layers of folders on a separate disk and none are under "Pictures". The only way Win could have found this picture was info from the prior install. I do not use OneDrive so where did Win find This? Does MSFT now upload everything to its servers?
Can anyone explain?
Yesterday, I decided to get rid of the lock screen, so I did so using Registry changes found in Microsoft's forums. I rebooted the system and the lock screen was no more. The log-in screen appeared but changed to my Microsoft account instead of my local account. I had not touched anything related to my account settings and I had never set up my MFST account in this install. (I know they are linked as a result of activation.). I changed it back to local but Win treated it like I was setting up a new account.
After logging in, the desktop background had changed from the default to a picture (part of a slideshow) I had used as background in the Win 8.1 install that I upgraded but was wiped away with "clean". This picture is located within several layers of folders on a separate disk and none are under "Pictures". The only way Win could have found this picture was info from the prior install. I do not use OneDrive so where did Win find This? Does MSFT now upload everything to its servers?
Can anyone explain?