Recently we wanted to play Minecraft. I had to install fresh windows.
I found ISO laying on nas. Installed it. Run update, after fifteen minuts and two reboots update told me everything is up to date.
We tried to run several programs, but no luck. Some dll error with missing entrypoints. Installed several cpp runtimes, dotnet frameworks, still no luck.
The we installed Minecraft, but from a page since app shop was not working. Minecraft said we are missing critical updates and it fetched some.
Then windows update was able to find new updates, we had to go through more reboots, and twice i had to select correct privacy settings, because Microsoft likes my data so much.
It took days to correctly install windows. Could have been easier if I used up to date image.
Second scenario is also about minecraft. On windows it wanted me to create window account for my kids. Required kid account to be working, and there were some issues that it said that windows pin does not work, we could not change it on the machine. I think we managed to change it online by some Xbox online, or other Microsoft page. These pages are just a maze of accounts, setups, game passes.
In the end it was easier just to run it on linux, and put just username and password. No advanced admin account management required.
You can easily check Windows version by looking at the properties of setup.exe. The command prompt you can invoke during installation also shows it. And I bet it shows up during setup as well.
Recently we wanted to play Minecraft. I had to install fresh windows.
I found ISO laying on nas. Installed it. Run update, after fifteen minuts and two reboots update told me everything is up to date.
We tried to run several programs, but no luck. Some dll error with missing entrypoints. Installed several cpp runtimes, dotnet frameworks, still no luck.
The we installed Minecraft, but from a page since app shop was not working. Minecraft said we are missing critical updates and it fetched some.
Then windows update was able to find new updates, we had to go through more reboots, and twice i had to select correct privacy settings, because Microsoft likes my data so much.
It took days to correctly install windows. Could have been easier if I used up to date image.
Second scenario is also about minecraft. On windows it wanted me to create window account for my kids. Required kid account to be working, and there were some issues that it said that windows pin does not work, we could not change it on the machine. I think we managed to change it online by some Xbox online, or other Microsoft page. These pages are just a maze of accounts, setups, game passes.
In the end it was easier just to run it on linux, and put just username and password. No advanced admin account management required.