Far more than 3 days passed and I'm still not being bothered by such messages. Thank you! Marking as solved.

Yes, these two last screens is what I meant.

Yes, except that this time Windows told me that it "must" (translating from Polish) connect to a Microsoft account and instead of a Polish equivalent of "skip for now" I got a "remind me in 3 days"...

Thank you for your response.

Unfortunately, I can't post a screenshot of this message. First of all I can't / don't know how to make it appear (if it appears then it appears on startup, before I...

Windows started bugging me with messages that it "must" connect to a Microsoft account.

Initially I was able to dismiss this message, although the button read "remind me later".

Today the...

Ah so things are that simple? I can just delete the recovery partition (even if it is the current one in use)? Thanks!

I don't understand.

I assume when you say 'old, redundant one' you mean the one that is first on the disk and has always been around? (as opposed to the one right after C: that only appeared...

Thanks.

But if so, then how can I reduce all space allocated for Windows stuff to create more space for non-Windows stuff?

Again - am I allowed to move the recovery partition a few gigabytes in...

I check out my partitioning scheme and I see something odd:


DISKPART> list partition

Partition ### Type Size Offset
------------- ---------------- ------- -------
...

Edited to 'Surprise'. Sorry if I offended you with the profanity.



Maybe? Makes sense I guess?

By the way, maybe the updates crashed because I forgot to plug out the gamepad?

Shantae...

This is what happened:

1. Laptop should be offline: Ethernet plugged out, WiFi switched off in system tray. I boot to Windows to play a game.
2. I'm done with the game. System tray shows there...

Thank you all guys!

Wow, it's kind of incredible that the option to use a local account is buried that deep now... I wonder when will MS remove it altogether?

My aunt bought a used Windows 10 laptop, OEM licence. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe this is legal, since a OEM licence is tied to a particular device, so one can sell their copy of Windows...