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Need help getting out of "S" mode in windows

janice&fred
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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?
 
Walrus
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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
 
Shabbaz
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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! 😁
 
redzer007
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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
 
janice&fred
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Thanks I get all the way to the "Get" button and then the circle jerk fun begins.
 
Walrus
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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.
 
janice&fred
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Foo2rama Foo2rama
That should work.

S mode makes zero sense... you should be free default to home.

@janice&fred
is this a new laptop or old one that got stuck in a mode?

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.
 
janice&fred
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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 😁
 
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janice&fred janice&fred
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 😁
Well this answers the question if you're smarter than a 12-year old.😝::rimshot::
 
Walrus
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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
 
redzer007
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janice&fred janice&fred
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 😁
So user error was the issue then?
 
janice&fred
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I prefer to call it "operator error". Sounds like I might otherwise be qualified 😁
 
Walrus
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janice&fred janice&fred
I prefer to call it "operator error". Sounds like I might otherwise be qualified 😁
It was Microsoft’s fault your daughter is just a genius, a prodigy
 
Foo2rama
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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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