Journal shanen's Journal: Abusive relationship with Microsoft's so-called "support" 19
How do you get locked out of Microsoft "support"? Is there any way to get back in?
My little meta-problem of the day is being locked out of Microsoft's so-called support. The email part (on outlook.live.com) works as usual, but every attempt to access the support part returns "Something went wrong and we can't sign you in right now. Please try again later." It's a black hole page with no links or options or suggestions. Once you get there, you are dead to Microsoft. Whenever I try to go to Microsoft support, that's all I've seen for several weeks now. (It may have begun months before that, but I'm glad when I forget ugly details. Dealing with Microsoft support has always been ugly.)
Returning to the original problem (of the month), the Start button is broken on one of my Windows 10 machines. Left click is dead. Fairly well known problem, but none of the solutions from non-Microsoft webpages has fixed it. If I ever had mod points, I'd mod you up for the solution, but all I can do is ask nicely.
In general, Windows 10 seems to be a good thing--but I don't really know how much it is abusing my personal information and privacy. The abusive relationship with Microsoft support is clearly the same, bad as it ever was. I really wish we actually had some good choices rather than having to search for the least bad or least evil options. There is a slightly adversarial relationship between buyers and sellers, but these years it is downright hostile. (Adversarial negotiations can still be win-win, but hostile negotiations are always lose-lose.)
It's the bait-and-switch economy (Score:2)
http://blog.dilbert.com/post/148455234631/the-bait-and-switch-confusopoly-economy [dilbert.com]
It affects everything
Sock puppet 638312 should be ignored (Score:2)
'Nuff said. Please do not feed the troll with anything I wrote.
Re: (Score:2)
Please do not feed the troll with anything I wrote. .... too bad I'm no sock puppet, which you *should have known* if you haven't hacked into a six digit account your grandfather set up.
Re: (Score:2)
Z^13
Re: (Score:2)
And yet, you keep responding, even after hitting upon the solution. One would think you know nothing of HFA-Level 1.
Re: (Score:2)
Z^3
More specifically on your issue (Score:2)
http://home.bt.com/tech-gadgets/computing/has-your-windows-10-start-menu-stopped-working-here-are-four-ways-to-fix-it-11364000314532 [bt.com]
Or at least, that's 4 things to try. I find third party tech support using goosh.org is better than Microsoft any day.
Troll 638312 should be ignored (Score:2)
Please don't feed the troll based on anything I wrote.
Re: (Score:1)
...hostile negotiations are always lose-lose
*Chump don' want no help, chump don't get da help! Jive-ass dude don't got no brains anyhow! Shiiiiit.*
Sock puppets to follow (Score:2)
Z^12
Re: (Score:2)
I can certainly see why Microsoft has decided to block his phone from calling support.
Does anyone care about 638312? (Score:2)
Troll? Sock puppet? Hacked account? Traumatic personality disruption?
Whatever. Please don't feed it on my account.
Re: (Score:2)
Not terribly traumatic, but very well known in our circle. I have not been silent about autistic issues, including the inability of people like me to not answer a question.
Re: (Score:1)
He/she (both?) knows the rules, and can get a subscription to create posting filters.
Since we're here, did you ever run into this left click problem on the windows icon? So far every Win10 upgrade I've done went fairly well, just a little slow on some machines. How much you wanna bet it's operator error, at least in this case? Or a mouse driver thing at worst?
Re:Does anyone care about 638312 or 1673220? (Score:2)
Z^2
Re: (Score:2)
I personally have only once- that person chose to downgrade back to Windows 8.1 which actually does work.
I've had several Windows 10 upgrades fail outright, usually on computers greater than seven years old. It's usually a driver problem though. This left click has several answers out there on developer websites- the driver error in this case is relying on Microsoft Support alone, which has been a trailing indicator on bugs like this for some time now (I stopped relying on Microsoft Knowledge Base alone b
Re: (Score:2)
Z^4
Re: (Score:1)
I've had several Windows 10 upgrades fail outright, usually on computers greater than seven years old.
I'm sure you see the problem then. I haven't tried that on anything older than four, even if the machine came with Windows 8(.1). Most of the issues I ran into were due to the cheap Celeron processors and lack of RAM. Windows 10 really wants 8gb and and an i5.
relying on Microsoft Support alone
There lies the rub, eh? Though sometimes, to avoid the adware sites, I have specified "site:microsoft.com" in Google
Re:Does anyone care about 638312 or 1673220? (Score:2)
Z^5