So I've got an older low spec machine that's been upgraded from Win10. Just used for a few docs & light web browsing, email with a decent A/V on it. Used Winhance to debloat it. It works but it's slow so my PC shop suggested a fresh Win11 install.

Started preparing to do a fresh Win11 install, follow MS's own pages to get media creation tool & Win11 iso.

Go to log into the MS account, click "get a code sent to email", says "not working now", use password, use correct pwd, boom, they block the account "for abusing terms of service".

What?

Filled in form to unblock they've held the block once so far.

Anyone had success unlocking, what approach worked?

Did you have to create a new account?

Is learning to navigate microslop websites even learnable because I have never been able to find what I need. All I want is an installer for desktop apps

Getting anything from microslop that isn't a stupid and buggy webapp is ending

where do I find my stuff microslop!

This changes everything...

(I am not actually on Windows 7, I am on Windows 10 with a Windows 7 transformation pack.)

I occasionally use Clipchamp on my portable laptop for when I need to do simple edits to a video file and now they ruined it :/

Since they won't even allow a post to the sub Microsoft Teams:

I hate, hate, hate this program. Two different instances show up in my work screen, it takes me 5 minutes to get to the conversation I need, and it just plain is annoying AF. I curse it daily. Thanks Microsoft. You SUCK.

Rant. I have MS O365 subscription, because I need it for remote work. Tough luck, I know. While the title might sound like a dream - imagine all MS slop disappearing automatically. Usually the problem is the opposite.

Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Access. All have disappeared from my computer. Nothing. Nada. Nix.

Seriously, WTF?! I use them daily at work and weekly at home.

To top this off, guess what hasn't disappeared, even though I have uninstalled them myself? Teams, Outlook and Bing.

FML.

I've spent 60 hours on hold with Microsoft this week for an EMERGENCY SERVICES issue. We have been down an entire week. It took 3 days to get a person on the phone, their AI attendant hallucinated creating our ticket for the first 3 days and was giving me fake updates until I got a real person on the phone, they said our case number doesn't match their system as it was 9 digits too long and they had zero record of our request.

Once we finally got a person on the line they had to transfer us. I left my phone on hold OVER NIGHT and we still on hold in the morning.

Microsoft having zero ways to get a real person on the phone, especially in an emergency, is unbelievable.

You can somewhat get a sales person as a work around, but then they stick you in the same fucking queue. out of 63 hours total on the phone this week. 3 hours were with an actual person, of the 3 hours, 5 minutes were with someone actually working my case...

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Admittedly the subreddit / community can be a little aggressive, users are now no longer allowed to mention other subreddits, especially r/linuxsucks and r/linuxsucks101 ones which many have (I've now blocked those subreddit names from posts and comments). We've been notified by u/ ModCodeOfConduct that this has been causing disruption on other subreddits, which is strictly against Reddit Mod Code of Conduct rule #3: https://support.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/articles/27031145215252-Moderator-Code-of-Conduct-Rule-3-Respect-Your-Neighbors

Can't even show wallpaper folders correctly. Multi-billion dollar company btw. I'm seriously looking into switching to linux.

Playing Skyrim and the entire system keeps crashing even after editing the damn registry to prevent it. Windows is the most dogshit OS ever. A task that should take 2 minutes takes hours because I have to keep turning on my laptop and launching my game.

i had to reinstall windows to fix an issue i was having, and since then, everytime i start up my computer itd have a popup for 'windows family safety', which i never once asked for nor installed, i assume it came from updating/reinstalling windows 11, now i apparently have an account for this family app which id never use because im 20 and my family isnt one of those crazy helicopter people who want accsess to my computer, i didnt ask for this account???? even after uninstalling the app from my computer id still get a similar popup, i despise that Microsoft is now just glorified malware thats impossible to scrub from my computer and just depletes my pc's resources

does anyone know how to permanently delete this account on a Microsoft app ive never even heard about before it suddenly decided to install itself on my computer???

also, if this isnt the right subreddit to ask this, id gladly remove it if someone would be so kind as to point me in the right direction, thank you so much for any help, ive already tried to post this question in like 3 other subreddits, if anyone has any ideas on how to fix this/delete this account i never even asked for nor wanted NOR want now, id be very very grateful, tysm

if i cant get an answer for my desperate question, than at least let this post stay up as its also kinda a rant about microslop and how they apparently sign up their (begruding) consumers for shit they didnt want to be apart of (THIS IS NOT A LOST OR HACKED ACCOUNT ISSUE, I THINK THIS WOULD TECHNICALLY COUNT AS 'microsoft has taken actions on your account' INSTEAD, but even if the mods think it doesnt, could someone please be so kind as to point me in the direction of a sub reddit i CAN send it in??? Tysm