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Can Anyone Explain Why Win 10 Changed My Settings?

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Whisper2

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After I upgraded to Win 10 from Win 8.1, I wiped my program drive using diskpart's "clean" command and set the drive to GPT. I then did I clean install using a disk made from the MSFT ISO. I used a local account and disconnected the internet while I installed. I have used the system for about a week now and have not had any major problems.

Yesterday, I decided to get rid of the lock screen, so I did so using Registry changes found in Microsoft's forums. I rebooted the system and the lock screen was no more. The log-in screen appeared but changed to my Microsoft account instead of my local account. I had not touched anything related to my account settings and I had never set up my MFST account in this install. (I know they are linked as a result of activation.). I changed it back to local but Win treated it like I was setting up a new account.

After logging in, the desktop background had changed from the default to a picture (part of a slideshow) I had used as background in the Win 8.1 install that I upgraded but was wiped away with "clean". This picture is located within several layers of folders on a separate disk and none are under "Pictures". The only way Win could have found this picture was info from the prior install. I do not use OneDrive so where did Win find This? Does MSFT now upload everything to its servers?

Can anyone explain?
 
Whisper2 said:
I decided to get rid of the lock screen, so I did so using Registry changes found in Microsoft's forums. I rebooted the system and the lock screen was no more.
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The recommended method is to run (WinKey + R): netplwiz
 
Another day, another change. Now, IE11 has a blank home page -- the same as I had in Win 8.1 when I upgraded (but subsequently wiped along with everything on the disk). Before this change, IE11 had the MSFT default. Typing "about: none" and a couple of clicks are required to make the home page blank. A stray mouse-click will not do it.

I am not crazy, this sucker is changing itself. The resultant changes all are settings I had in the Win 8.1 install that was upgraded.

I found a "scheduled task" called "sih" under Windows Update that could be the culprit. The description is very broad:

This daily task launches the SIH client (server-initiated healing) to detect and fix system components that are vital to automatic updating of Windows and Microsoft software installed on the machine. This task can go online, evaluate applicability of healing actions, download necessary payloads to execute the actions, and execute healing actions.

Maybe this task has gone amuck and thinks it needs to make my clean-installed Win10 look like the original Win install it upgraded?
 
Dahak said:
not to go off topic, but do you have that link handy
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http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/...k-screen/2afb3a46-1c9a-45e8-a6f1-6849f85f18cf

If you have Pro, you can delete it with gpedit but it really isn't any easier and then you cause the gpedit service to run all the time.


Puffnstuff said:
I'll bet those registry changes have something to do with it.
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I added only two words: Personalization & NoLockScreen. See Link.

Nothing is messed-up. The changes are just making my new install look like the upgraded one.
 
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Yes, your Microsoft account saves settings like Home Page and last background used. I don't know how it changed you login type, but when you start playing with the registry, anything is possible.
 
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