May not understand, may have made a mistake !

[glennc]

Hello,
I have been using W8 on my secondary computer. It does not get that much use. So I really haven't kept up with developments or features of the 8.1 upgrade. I had set up W8 by removing all cloud application (ALL) and replacing them with computer based programs. Somehow I perceived that 8.1 would allow me to do that and would have a start button, like it should IMHO.
I have either not installed it right, or have made wrong assumptions as I have updated just the other day. There seem to be tons of cloud apps and I can't get rid of them the easy way. How would one go about turning off all cloud access, finding and deleting all cloud based apps and replacing them, as I did on W8????? Help!!!!
It appears that there is no way IMHO to make a recovery disk. A bunch of NEW apps listed!! I do not ever wish to sync or store or access any clouds.
Thanks for any information and assistance. I basically used W8 as it worked well and fast on an older computer!

Regards,
glennc

 

[David Bailey]

For recovery I used Macrium Reflect & imaged all my local drives.
It took up 28 GBs on a 32 GB usb drive.
Yours may be of different size.
Macrium saves EVERYTHING on the computer.

 

[exscentric]

As to cloud apps, if you go to charm bar and click settings, then change pc settings you will find all sorts of settings, I have not messed around in there yet but you might find something. As long as you have a local user account it won't do the cloud part I don't think. If you had to sign in with a Microsoft account then you do not have a local user account and there are some threads here relating to making changes. You do not want to make a local account and just delete the MS one as that will delete your data.

 

[glennc]

For recovery I used Macrium Reflect & imaged all my local drives.
It took up 28 GBs on a 32 GB usb drive.
Yours may be of different size.
Macrium saves EVERYTHING on the computer.

I do use Macrium, and thanks. But the IIRC the Windows Recovery Disk offered options beyond just having a system image.
I see that there is some kind of USB thing. What is the world coming too ????

glennc

 

[glennc]

As to cloud apps, if you go to charm bar and click settings, then change pc settings you will find all sorts of settings, I have not messed around in there yet but you might find something. As long as you have a local user account it won't do the cloud part I don't think. If you had to sign in with a Microsoft account then you do not have a local user account and there are some threads here relating to making changes. You do not want to make a local account and just delete the MS one as that will delete your data.

Hello exscentric,
Did not know that. Was always concerned about having a login with the same password as Microsoft Account. Will definitely try to hunt that down. The install to 8.1 tried to get me to make my admin account non-local. Also will look at the charm bar, many thanks!!
glennc

 

[brummyfan]

From charms bar, click PC settings, click Accounts, click Disconnect (just below your e-mail address), you can log in with a Local account.

 

[glennc]

From charms bar, click PC settings, click Accounts, click Disconnect (just below your e-mail address), you can log in with a Local account.
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Hello and Woopy (partially)!
exscentrix's link to Brink's tutorial worked perfect. It stated that I could no longer connect to the cloud as a local account, but all previous stuff was still there.
Hopefully that will kill off a lot of cloud apps, I hope. The PC settings were not specifically helpful, but somethings needed changing!

glennc

 

[brummyfan]

Hi glennc,
I thought you wanted to switch between Microsoft A/C and Local Account, by using Local account, you can avoid the "Cloud" but switching to Local account won't result in any Data loss. Thanks for the rep.

 

[glennc]

Hi glennc,
I thought you wanted to switch between Microsoft A/C and Local Account, by using Local account, you can avoid the "Cloud" but switching to Local account won't result in any Data loss. Thanks for the rep.

brummyfan,
I am slow. Until today I didn't realize/think about being able to dump the Microsoft A/C. As mentioned I did so, finally. From your comments, as I don't know, I am no longer using the cloud in anyway? Does this mean that all the 8.1 application that I haven't been able to remove like camera and several others, won't work!!! That is the way I had W8 running. Appreciate anymore insight into this subject area that you care to share. Don't know much!!
Thanks still more!
glennc