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Tiny Giant

9:02 PM

#lost

cybermonkey

I know this is Super User (yada yada), but any suggestions on a better title?

Q: How can I stop the Windows 10 installer from using the preinstalled serial key without disabling UEFI?

My laptop (a Lenovo Flex 2 15) came preinstalled with Windows 8 Standard (with the serial key preinstalled into the BIOS), and I've since installed an SSD (a Samsung Evo 840 120GB) & upgraded to Windows 10. When the laptop still had its hard drive, I upgraded it to Professional so I could use th...

Braiam

@cybermonkey ask "why X happens instead of Y" and not how

cybermonkey

@Braiam title would still be rather long

Tiny Giant

@Shog asked

> Prevent Windows 10 installer from using the preinstalled serial key without disabling UEFI.

Shog9

> Keep Microsoft from spying on me without disabling UEFI

Tiny Giant

9:14 PM

> Prevent Microsoft from spying on me.

Shog9

> Ward off vampires?

Tiny Giant

Yeah, can't top that.

> Garlic guidance?

> Magic?

@Braiam edited

9:18 PM

(how do you do that bar before your text?)

Tiny Giant

>

(Space matters)

Simon Klaver

> I see

Braiam

 ><whitespace>text

Simon Klaver

Thanks all.

Shog9

9:32 PM

@TinyGiant define "answered"

"has an answer"?
"has an upvoted answer?"
"has accepted or upvoted answer?"
"has accepted or upvoted answer that wasn't deleted at the time of question deletion?"

Tiny Giant

Well the OP can't delete their question if the answer is upvoted, accepted or there is more than one.

Shog9

The usual SE definition is the last one

Which is why I asked

Tiny Giant

So the first.

Shog9

@TinyGiant can be deleted then?

Tiny Giant

Uhmmm... no, a cross between the first and last then.

Not accepted or upvoted but not deleted.

Do you want me to put that in the question?

Shog9

9:34 PM

@TinyGiant yes

Tiny Giant

Updated

Shog9

9:49 PM

@TinyGiant ok. Now tell me why you wanted to know, and I'll tell you why the answer I just posted won't help you...

Tiny Giant

I wanted to tell this guy that it doesn't happen often enough to be a problem in need of solving, but I didn't have anything to back that up.

Shog9

@TinyGiant in that case, your "scores >= 0" requirement was sorta counter-productive...

Tiny Giant

Well I wanted to rule out questions deleted because they were closed or downvoted.

Shog9

@TinyGiant you could get the real answer from the numbers here

Answer    Parent question deleted (Author vote)                       2683          2.14 %

Tiny Giant

But I was trying to isolate questions that didn't really have a reason for deletion other than the author got their answer.

Shog9

9:53 PM

Fair enough then

Tiny Giant

Thanks for the information @Shog.

Shog9

Tiny Giant

For only 0.6% of questions asked in the past year, it doesn't seem like a problem worth solving. What Kaiido refers to occurs far more often @Robert. — Tiny Giant 2 mins ago

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Manually reported answer: How to install an APK file on an Android phone? by Susan Decker on stackoverflow.com

[ SmokeDetector ] Few unique characters in answer, repeating words in answer: Find perimeter of traiangle when you know two sides by foh son on math.stackexchange.com

Simon Klaver

sd k

...although I am unsure whether me saying that has any effect. Is this affected by rep?

hichris123

10:01 PM

hold on

Tiny Giant

type !!/amiprivileged

Simon Klaver

!!/amiprivileged

SmokeDetector

@SimonKlaver No, you are not a privileged user.

Simon Klaver

Clearly not then :P

hichris123

@SimonKlaver try again. :P

Simon Klaver

10:04 PM

!!/amiprivileged

hichris123

bah smokey was restarting

Tiny Giant

Nothin'

hichris123

the answer should be yes now. :P

Simon Klaver

He did not even bother the second time.

But, if so: Thank you, kind stranger!

hichris123

@SimonKlaver Well, try now. ;)

Simon Klaver

10:05 PM

!!/amiprivileged

SmokeDetector

@SimonKlaver Yes, you are a privileged user.

Simon Klaver

@SmokeDetector Yay.

sd k tpu

SmokeDetector

1. [:4399548] That message is not a report.
2. [:4399537] That message is not a report.

Simon Klaver

Ah, it does not work for smokeys two most recent messages, but for the most recent messages in general.

@SmokeDetector tpu

SmokeDetector

@SimonKlaver Blacklisted user.

Simon Klaver

10:15 PM

@SmokeDetector k

Ok, that's it for testing (I saw both posts btw, they were genuinely spam).

cybermonkey

10:53 PM

cv-pls (simple typographical error):

-4

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Once I came upon this error, I scoured the internet for a solution. Everything I came across did not hint to what was wrong. A few talked about pointers being messed up. I don't have any pointers in my program. If someone could help me with this problem, I would greatly appreciate it. Sorry about...