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A way to download the WINDOWS for the computer I just bought and
a way to DELETE ALL THE BING CRAP that will never be used and
a way to DELETE THE "one drive" junk that will never be used!
I have a Toshiba laptop that has stood the test of time.  I'm still using it, and will continue using it but I needed a clean machine to use for work.  If this had said "NO WINDOWS INSIDE THE SYSTEM, YOU HAVE TO GO TO THE INTERNET TO GET IT AFTER YOU PAY $350" on the box, I would have never even looked at it twice.  Advertising seems quite deceptive.

None of the recovery options changed the sign-in to "MICROSOFT ACCOUNT" demand.  However, there is an option to call in and activate "Windows".   Then, you reach an automated robot who gives you numbers that you're supposed to put in the activation block but so quickly there is no opportunity to tell it to "pause" to give you enough time to complete their commands.  THEN you get switched to a live human, who doesn't help you until you listen to all of their gabbing about their "services".  Then he recites the numbers you're supposed to type in so quickly, you have to ask him to stop so that you can enter them.  After getting them entered, the activation was complete.
Nothing has changed in the system whatsoever after installing "WINDOWS".  I asked the man what my brand spanking new WINDOWS offers that my uninitiated system did.  I asked him how to delete the "One Drive" features and other junk I don't want that isn't available for uninstallation using the control panel.  He hung up.  Must have been an accident, eh?  I didn't give him a call back number and didn't call from my own phone, because this new computer has to be 100% free of all intrusion.  From the Microsoft Account necessity to the phone "Activation" feature, all systems are designed to intrude into the owner's life and the life of their business.  I wouldn't put anything in a cloud I didn't want everyone in the free world to have access to some day when it gets hacked. 
I liked the old days, when you used to be able to buy something and use it without needing someone's approval.  Now, buying and using a computer is like those cliches about having a nightmare -- you know, the one about standing naked on stage during a high school assembly?
I will eventually find and destroy all of the intrusion packets in the system, but I sure wish they would make them "opt in" instead of "opt out".  We give them license to do it whenever we buy the products and don't complain about losing our privacy to a 5 pound hunk of plastic.

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