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Need help getting out of "S" mode in windows

  1. janice&fred Dec 10, 2020

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    Hi guys and gals!

    I have a lenovo laptop and I can't get out of "S" mode no matter how many times I go thru the procedure. It keeps prompting me to sign in via phone number, then password, then enter email. When I get to the point of entering my email it says that email address is already in use. Yea...it's used by us! Total circle-jerk as I'm trying to download the zoom app and can't do it while in S mode. Any techies out here that can help me out?
     
  2. Walrus Dec 10, 2020

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    Sorry Fred I’ll reached out to my wife but she must be busy as she didn’t get back to me, or maybe she is out buying her boyfriend a watch. I remember she had a Lenovo at one point if I hear back I will ask
     
  3. Shabbaz Dec 10, 2020

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    I can tell you how to send a fax. You insert a paper, you fill in the faxnumber and you push send.

    But good luck! :D
     
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  4. redzer007 Dec 10, 2020

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    Try creating a different email address via outlook.com, add that account as an admin, log in with that accout and run the s mode app from the store
     
  5. Canuck Dec 10, 2020

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  6. janice&fred Dec 10, 2020

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    Thanks I get all the way to the "Get" button and then the circle jerk fun begins.
     
  7. Mark020 not the sharpest pencil in the ΩF drawer Dec 10, 2020

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  8. Foo2rama Keeps his worms in a ball instead of a can. Dec 10, 2020

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  9. 3nicewatches $100 well spent Dec 10, 2020

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    Throw the PC away and get a Mac
     
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  10. Walrus Dec 10, 2020

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    My wife being an engineer, first thing she will do is a soft reset (or even turn the product off and on) prior to frigging around with things. You probably tried that but if you didn’t give it a shot.

    I hear my wife’s boyfriend has a nice watch collection.
     
  11. janice&fred Dec 10, 2020

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    laptop is less than a year old. I tried everything including the quoted suggestions but microsoft won't accept any email addresses...even their own outlook express email that I just created.
     
  12. dougwhiz Dec 10, 2020

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  13. janice&fred Dec 10, 2020

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    Thanks for all the suggestions and finally got it out of "S" mode. All I had to do was wait for my 12 yr old kid to get home from school and she got it done :D
     
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  14. YY77 Dec 10, 2020

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    Well this answers the question if you're smarter than a 12-year old.::bleh::::rimshot::
     
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  15. Walrus Dec 10, 2020

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    Didn’t I tell you to ask your daughter how to download zoom last week? I bet she can get in on ur phone in two minutes
     
  16. redzer007 Dec 10, 2020

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    So user error was the issue then?
     
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  17. janice&fred Dec 10, 2020

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    I prefer to call it "operator error". Sounds like I might otherwise be qualified :D
     
  18. Walrus Dec 10, 2020

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    It was Microsoft’s fault your daughter is just a genius, a prodigy
     
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  19. Rasputin The Mad Monk of OF Dec 10, 2020

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    @janice&fred probably best you refrain from visiting certain websites ;)
     
  20. Foo2rama Keeps his worms in a ball instead of a can. Dec 10, 2020

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    @janice&fred children are oddly immune to the ID 10 T errors. Also they seem to have fewer unspecified errors between user and keyboard.
     
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