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Concerning the password: When you set up your PC through a Microsoft-Account you choose how you want to log into your PC. There are several options: facial recognition, finger print, PIN, Microsoft-Account password, picture-password or a security key. These ways of unlocking are tied/related to your Microsoft-Account. (You can't use them withou an account) But the windows system needs something I call a "true" password, so a password like this "true" username I mentioned. It's for all the systems that don't integrate with the Microsoft- Account yet, because the fundamental idea of our modern computers needs some sort of local user. Now network-shares and a lot of other services still work with this "hidden" local user and a "true" username and password. In addition to that I have found out through setting up multiple PCs and searching the internet that the "true" username is set as the first five letters of your Microsoft-Account email-address and the "true" password is set as the password you used at that time with your Microsoft Account. (just type the phenomenon I mention into Google and also here are some other reports from years ago up until a few months ago (there are a lot more, this is just a selection): https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows10/comments/58lv09/windows_use_first_5_letters_of_our_email/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows10/comments/79af5i/why_does_windows_uses_the_first_five_letters_of/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows11/comments/q2jkor/are_user_account_folder_names_still_truncated/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows10/comments/gmoewj/any_way_to_rename_user_folder_name_without/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows10/comments/44xnr0/microsoft_account_users_what_is_your_user_folder/ ) Even though Microsoft, as you are correct to point out, obviously hashes the passwords. My guess is when you type your account details in during setup they are used generate the "hidden" / "true" user. I hope that clears out the questions

You are wrong Enterprise / Education versions are subject to those requirements. And the removal of possible tricks you mention prompted me to make this post. And anyway a non echnical user won't be able to use those tricks, but they still use basic windows features like file sharing.

As Windows 11 is about to make a Microsoft Account mandatory for all new installs many have raised multiple concerns from privacy to anti-trust behaviour. But I haven't seen anyone talking about the fact that logging in with Microsoft-Account bricks core Windows functionallity: The root of the problem is that even though Windows will display your Microsoft-Account name as the user-name, deep down Windows requires a real account name. (Eg. The one it lists when you call the "net users" command or the one you have to use when doing anything with the terminal or the one your user folder is named after) The problem is that it chooses the first five letters of your Microsoft-Account E-Mail-Adress at the time of setup! Additionally even though you log into your computer through Windows Hello, deep down Windows requires a real password. And it uses the one of your Microsoft Account during PC-Setup WHY??? The problem is that soooo many services rely on these "true" log in details. Not only the command line or the file system rely on this information, but nearly every Windows functionality introduced before Windows 10. So also network folders / shared folders and many more. It gets even worse when you forcefully change these things through the command line (you can't do it in the settings). Either it doesn't work because the Microsoft-Account somehow just reverts the changes, or destroy your installation. (Both happened to me) And we haven't even talked about the fact that it is very common in a lot of companies or schools to have a central data storage server with all the user data and for the users to be able log in from every computer connected to this so called "windows domain" it completely bricks that very useful functionality.

Both of you are incorrect, the Find My App previously didn´t connect your phone into a network which reports on other peoples devices.

With the new Find-My network your phone will be updating the location of someone elses Airtag or Device. But how much data will it use for that? Will people with "pay for what you use"-plans be able to opt-out of the find-my network and is it opt-out, or opt-in (looking at some EU regulation)? And could Jailbroken phones be able to log the find-my data they are passing in the backround for mailicius purposes? I think these questions haven´t been answered thouroghly enough. If anyone knows more, please let me know.

Are all cables plugged in?

I am running the latest windows build and after fiddeling around in the settings I am currently stuck with 3 languages in the [Windows + Space Bar] menu, even though I have only two keyboard layouts installed, or at least there are only shown two in the settings... Is there a way to remove the third other then through the settings (aditionally I didn´t find a way in sysconfig)? It really inhibits my workflow, as I now have years of muscle memmory to switch beetwen my two main languages with [Windows + Space Bar].

In addition to my 321 Backup SetUp, which is already managed, I sometimes need to carry some data around, so I also have this particular data on a portable drive. Whenever I want to use it, I have to copy the entire data onto the hard drive, even though just some files (from thousands) were added, or removed. Is there a software that you recommend and that will automagically sync the data , whenever I plug the hard drive into my PC? That way I would just need to wait a few seconds, not 45 minutes. edit: and please no "LMGTFY"

I mean they add about 30% of extra storage (to just PDF files), but the problem I really had was the word documents cluttering all the folders.

I am currently archiving and sorting old files. I often have files twice, one in PDF format, one in Word format (.docx). It is the result of writing a document in word, but sharing it later on via E-Mail and creating a PDF version for that. I won´t be editing nearly any of the documents, so is there any benefit in keeping the Word Version?

I went trough all the autostart earlier and only have the things listed as "wanted" in my post in there. But what do you think about uninstalling some Lenovo Firmware?

Setting it up completely new would be a big hassle since I have been using it since the beginnig of January.

I have noticed very high idle RAM usage on my Thinkpad E490, it is about three quarters of a year old. In idle the RAM ussage is about 42% or 5GB and sometimes up to 6GB. On the lookout for potential trubble makers I found that a process, the Lenovo.Modern.ImController, coming potentially from lenovo firmware like Lenovo Vantage, is responsible for about 1-2 two fifths of that so 1-2GB. It is running about 13 times. Wtf? Addional tasks with Lenovo in the name account for up to another 500mb. So my first question: Should I delete all/some Lenovo Firmware? As far as I remember all BIOS updates were done through Lenovo Vantage (please correct me were else to do them) and some drivers and special thermal software for fan control are updated through it. Secondly, what other programs could cause such unusual high RAM usage? Some of the programs I would accept running in the backround are eg. my AntiVirus Norton, Steam, iCloud and a password manager, but all of which only account for max. about 400mb. * All of the values are either ranges or max values (which don´t all occur simoultaniously) Which sometimes makes up to 1GB of ussage, while accounting for the operating system, not accounted for --> so other backround programs I´d like to eliminate. Thank you in advance for your responses

Thank you for your help, but I think I found the issue, there was a safety feauture preenabled, that throttled everything to keep the charging device save when on an airplane, it was on auto and as far as I could find out, that means it basically just does things randomly

@TomvanWijnenI am pluged in, but I will check if there is any perfomance throttle enabled in the devices settings under certain conditions.