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Hello everyone,
I bought a refurbished NB DELL Latitude 5320 with Win11 Professional pre-installed for school for myself or for my son. (He should also use Windows, because of teams, one or two games, etc.)
Unfortunately, I made the mistake of simply trying the installation (which started immediately when I turned the thing on). I would like to point out that I generally give Microsoft a wide berth. At work the IT takes care of the stuff and in my private life I am 100% Linux.
That’s why I don’t know anything about this whole MS account stuff, I don’t have an account and don’t want one.
I now want to install the OS for my son as nakedly as possible, i.e. without full monitoring by Microsoft, advertising garbage, contracts, cloud dependency, etc.
Even if I can, I don’t want to open an account for him at MS.
Now I read this tip at Heise:
Unfortunately, I’m already past this point during the installation and can’t get back to it.
What can I do?
(I have to mention that I didn’t get any license items from the dealer other than the notebook. Normally there should be a card with a key, right? Or can you read the key in the BIOS? Or is it anchored somewhere in the device?
I’m confused. What can I do?
Would I have to ask the dealer for a license key?
Can I simply reinstall Windows somehow via a medium (bootable stick with image or something) or will I get a version conflict or other difficulties? Where would I get such an image? Will I lose the key (because I don’t have it in black and white)?
Oh yes, I haven’t managed to get into the OS yet, so naturally I can’t check the control panel to see what the key is.
And at the point where I am (creating a child account, creating a parent account) I don’t want to continue.
Please help before I have to force my son into Linux for life and argue with the teachers about why my son is the only one who doesn’t have MS or Apple.
Thanks,
Martin
PS: Please bear with me, I have no patience when it comes to installing Windows, as I’ve gotten used to it from before (Win98, Win7) and now with Linux that you install an operating system (with two clicks) and then own the computer and the system, which then does what you tell it to do. No strings attached.
I bought a refurbished NB DELL Latitude 5320 with Win11 Professional pre-installed for school for myself or for my son. (He should also use Windows, because of teams, one or two games, etc.)
Unfortunately, I made the mistake of simply trying the installation (which started immediately when I turned the thing on). I would like to point out that I generally give Microsoft a wide berth. At work the IT takes care of the stuff and in my private life I am 100% Linux.
That’s why I don’t know anything about this whole MS account stuff, I don’t have an account and don’t want one.
I now want to install the OS for my son as nakedly as possible, i.e. without full monitoring by Microsoft, advertising garbage, contracts, cloud dependency, etc.
Even if I can, I don’t want to open an account for him at MS.
Now I read this tip at Heise:
Unfortunately, I’m already past this point during the installation and can’t get back to it.
What can I do?
(I have to mention that I didn’t get any license items from the dealer other than the notebook. Normally there should be a card with a key, right? Or can you read the key in the BIOS? Or is it anchored somewhere in the device?
I’m confused. What can I do?
Would I have to ask the dealer for a license key?
Can I simply reinstall Windows somehow via a medium (bootable stick with image or something) or will I get a version conflict or other difficulties? Where would I get such an image? Will I lose the key (because I don’t have it in black and white)?
Oh yes, I haven’t managed to get into the OS yet, so naturally I can’t check the control panel to see what the key is.
And at the point where I am (creating a child account, creating a parent account) I don’t want to continue.
Please help before I have to force my son into Linux for life and argue with the teachers about why my son is the only one who doesn’t have MS or Apple.
Thanks,
Martin
PS: Please bear with me, I have no patience when it comes to installing Windows, as I’ve gotten used to it from before (Win98, Win7) and now with Linux that you install an operating system (with two clicks) and then own the computer and the system, which then does what you tell it to do. No strings attached.
