Disable Windows S Mode Without Microsoft Account in 2024

today we're revisiting my method for disabling SM mode without a Microsoft account it seems like I wasn't really clear on a few things in my last video and it's caused some confusion for some people so hopefully today we can clear that up stay tuned so if you've been following this channel for a while then you may know that I absolutely refuse to create a Microsoft account my reasoning for this isn't all that complex I just don't want to and Microsoft accounts also make it a lot harder for technicians like me to do my job but if you have no problem creating a Microsoft account then this video probably isn't for you because if you have a Microsoft account all you have to do is just turn off S Mode but if you're like me and you don't want to create one I'm going to show you how to turn off S Mode without one but first I got to pay some bills so check out today's sponsor is your copy of Windows 10 unactivated well it doesn't have to be because with today's sponsor vipd key you can get a 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boot in the Bios now I mentioned this in the last video but I guess many people must have skipped ahead so must have missed that part because I get a ton of comments saying that this method doesn't work I even pinned a comment in the last video talking about this problem but it seems like no one really reads the pin comments either so in this video I'm going to cover both methods of disabling S Mode without a Microsoft account for the first method I'm going to be using this Mini PC right here because it requires going into the BIOS and here's the thing if you have a system that's running S Mode you're not going to have an Aus motherboard like my computer here so it's completely pointless showing you how to turn off secure boot on an isus motherboard because you're never going to find a computer like that with S Mode enabled so this Mini PC right here has a bios that's similar to what you could find on many cookie cutter systems that would come with SM mode enabled now before we do that though the first thing that we have to do is actually get into the BIOS unfortunately this isn't a standard and all different manufacturers do it a little bit differently well technically there is a standard and that's the delete button but unfortunately most computer manufacturers don't actually follow the standard either way you're going to have to hit a spefic specific button combination on your keyboard right after you hit the power button when you can first see the computer's post screen and like I just mentioned before the standard is the delete button but if that one doesn't work then you can also try a few other ones like for instance on Dell systems you have to hit F2 and if you're on an HP you can either hit F10 or hit the Escape ski until you see the startup menu and from there you can hit F10 when I'm working on an HP typically use the Escape key because I often can't remember the function key for each thing within the startup menu and just hitting Escape we show you the whole option finally if you're on an Acer notebook you should be able to get into the BIOS by using the F2 key but if you're on an Acer desktop then you'll have to use the delete key I'm not sure why it's different but Acer really likes to make things complicated just try buying parts for one it's not fun but either way those are the ones that I know off the top of my head and unfortunately if you have a system other than a Dell HP or Acer then you can try one of those key combinations or just Google your specific computer and find out how you get into the bios so I'm going to go ahead and get this one hooked up and I'll meet you in the Bios okay so here we are in the Bios now for this little mini PC I just hit delete to get into the bios so it is following the standard on this one and that's the one I would typically try first but if it doesn't work then you'll have to figure out how to get into the BIOS on your specific spefic computer you should be able to find a web page that'll show you how to do it but otherwise once you get into the BIOS the first thing that I typically look for is the boot section that would be right here and you essentially go through and see if you can find secure boot anywhere now obviously on here I don't see secure boot anywhere inside this section so where I would go next is over to the security tab right here and if you go down there you go you can see the secure boot section so all you got to do is hit enter and then this will allow you to enable or disable secure boot now when it comes to different bioses this is typically how they're organized if you can't find it in the boot section then usually you can find it in a security section now your bios might look different than this but hopefully you'll still be able to figure out how to either enable or disable it just from looking at those different sections so to disable it on this computer as you can see right now it's currently enabled I just hit enter go to disabled and then at that point I can hit save changes and exit and then as soon as I hit yes to save configuration it's going to reboot Bo the computer now on some systems you won't quite be done yet on mine all you have to do is disable secure Boot and that's it however on most systems there's a challenge that you have to answer in order to disable secure boot essentially you'll see a screen that comes up that asks you to enter a series of numbers and then hit enter in order to finish disabling secure boot this is a bios capture that makes it harder for secure boot to be turned off without your knowledge so go ahead and enter that series of numbers and then hit enter and finish booting into windows at this point go into settings click on system and then scroll down to the bottom and click on the about page and from here you'll be able to see if your computer's still an S Mode and if it's no longer in S Mode then go ahead and reboot your computer back into the BIOS and reenable secure Boot and you're done as long as S Mode is disabled that it won't reenable itself if you turn secure boot back on unfortunately though if that didn't work if your system is still in S Mode then there's one more method we can try so go ahead and leave secure boot turned off for the moment and then we'll move on to the next step but first I'm going to go ahead and switch this Mini PC out and hook my system back up and I'll meet you in Windows and I'll show you how to do it okay so here we are in Windows 11 and as you can see if we go into the start button here we go into settings and we're going to go into system we're going to scroll down down and click on about and as you can see we are in fact currently running in S Mode now officially s mode only comes on Windows home edition PCS the reason why my system has Windows 11 Pro in S Mode is because I use this method in the reverse in order to enable Windows S Mode unfortunately though once it's enabled you can't open reg edit to disable it because unfortunately you can't use reg edit in s mode with S Mode enabled as it turns out you can't use OBS Studio to do screen capture either so luckily I have an external recorder that I can use in order to film this video so let's jump back on the system and I'll show you how to turn it off but one of the downsides to running an S Mode is that you can't run any third-party programs like for instance if I click on Chrome right here you can see for security and performance this mode of Windows only runs Microsoft verified apps now you can click right here on this little link right here and it'll open the Microsoft store and then from the Microsoft store where it says switch out of s mode all you got to do is hit get but you need to sign up for a Microsoft account in order to do it and like I said I don't want a Microsoft account so I'm going to show you how to get out of s mode without having to deal with a Microsoft account and for that it's relatively simple so from our settings menu right here what we're going to have to do is click on system and then from system we want to click down on recovery then from recovery we want to go to advance startup and then and once you hit that it'll come up with a prompt telling you to save your work because obviously it has to restart your computer so go ahead and hit restart now and it should restart into recovery at this point your system's going to reboot into recovery now depending on the speedier system it might take a second but once it's in recovery we'll move on to the next step okay so once you're in recovery you're going to be on this screen right here and what we're going to want to do is we want to click right here where it says troubleshoot so go ahead and click troubleshoot and then from The Next Step we want to click on Advanced options and then from Advanced options we want to go right down here where it says command prompt and go ahead and click that now on some systems it may ask you for user credentials but chances are it's not going to if you just set this system up if you did enter a password then it's probably going to ask you for that password if you didn't then it'll just give you the command prompt like it did right here with me now once you get to your command prompt all you want to do is type in regedit and then hit enter and it'll go ahead and open up your registry editor and then from here you want to go ahead and click on the local machine right here and essentially what we're going to be doing is this local machine is the recovery local machine if that makes any sense what we want to do is we want to open the hive for the actual system that we're going to be using because otherwise it would make no sense to edit the registry in the recovery environment Not for Windows itself so to do that what we want to do is go ahead and click on make sure you have highlighted the local machine and then click on file and then click on load hiive and then from here we want to go to obviously you can see right now we're in the X Drive in system 32 that's not the system 32 we want we want to go to the C drive and then from C drive you want to go ahead and go into windows and then go down into system 32 right down here and then from system 32 you want to go into conf config right here and then from config you're looking for a file called system right here this is the registry Hive for the system itself so go ahead and highlight that and click open now it's going to want you to name this Hive now what I would do is just name it offline system and then go ahead and hit okay and it will go ahead and load offline system right into the local machine subcategory in your reg edit here so once you open that up what you're going to want to do is go to current control set 001 now if you don't have 001 and it just says current control set then that's the one you want to go into otherwise you want to go into 001 and then from here you want to go into control and then from control you want to scroll down until you find CI right here and go ahead and open that up and then from there you want to click on policy now on these right here there's three different registry ke Keys here you have your em Mode Policy required you have your skew policy required and you have verified and reputable policy State now on systems that I have disabled S Mode in the past on this last one wasn't here so you should be able just to disregard that one the only one we're really going to concern ourselves with is the skew policy required and your setting should be one if S Mode is enabled on your computer so what you're going to want to do is just go ahead and open this up and change this to from one to zero and then go ahead and hit okay and then at that point what we're going to want to do is that's essentially all have to change inside of the registry however there's one more important step that we have to do because right now this hasn't actually been written to the Registries flat file and to do that all you have to do is scroll up highlight your offline system again you got to make sure to highlight this key go up to file and hit unload Hive and at that point go ahead and hit yes and it'll unload that Hive from your system and then from here we can go ahead and close this we can close our Command Prompt and we can turn off the PC or reboot the PC now if you did everything exactly how I showed you then S Mode should be disabled so let's jump back on the system and see if it worked okay so from here all you got to do is go ahead and click on start click settings and then from settings we want to go to system scroll down into about and as you can see now we are officially in Windows 11 Pro without S Mode and you should notice that you should still be able to Now open up all your different apps at this point as long as S Mode is disabled you can go ahead and go back into the BIOS and reenable secure boot once you disable S Mode you can always turn secure boot back on and it won't reenable S mode but I would definitely go through all of these processes with secure boot turned off because some people had to do both in order to get S Mode to turn off so for whatever reason if you want to enable S Mode on your system like I did for this video just go ahead and do what I did in Reverse luckily to enable S Mode you can just do it from reg edit from within windows but if you enable it on your system you won't be able to turn it off unless you go through and follow this method again now there's many reasons why you might want to enable S Mode you might have a family member that you support that keeps messing their computer up S Mode is a great way to stop third-party applications from running on your system so it might help quit getting late night support calls or it could actually increase those late night support calls because no third- party programs work but you know that's on you you might also be a really bad friend that plays lots of practical jokes this would be a really really mean one by the way if you do this to one of your friends make sure to leave them a link to this video that is if they can open their browser to watch it man just you know what maybe you just shouldn't do this to your friends you might not have any friends very long if you do now one problem that you might run into is Windows 11 requires you to create a Microsoft account in order to even finish installation if you don't want to create a Microsoft account then that kind of makes things a little bit difficult now there are workarounds to get around the Microsoft Account requirement but unfortunately those workarounds don't work if smode is enabled and you can't disable S Mode until you get logged onto your system luckily there's a way around this also what I would do is go ahead and find yourself a copy of Windows 1122 H2 and just reload the system with it chances are the computer came with a bunch of junk on it anyway and reloading it would make it run better right out of the box then when you're running Windows 1122 H2 you can use the old workarounds to get around the Microsoft Account requirements most of these should work with S Mode enabled and I'll go ahead and leave a link to that video right here but unfortunately to use those workarounds you have to be running Windows 1122 H2 but once you get S Mode disabled you can upgrade your system to a current version of Windows 11 as always you guys have a great day

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Length: 16min 8sec (968 seconds)

Published: Mon Jun 10 2024