How to Disable and Turn off S Mode in Windows 11 (2024)

Rick here and if you're like me you might have purchased a windows-based PC lately and it comes in S Mode s mode does not stand for sport it stands for security and it makes your life a whole lot more difficult when it comes to installing programs and apps that aren't approved by Microsoft to switch out of s mode or if you're in S Mode you're going to get this error message that the app you're trying to install isn't a Microsoft verified app and it's not going to let you in install that it's going to tell you that you need to switch out of s mode but it's actually pretty tricky to find so the first thing we're going to do is going to go down to the Windows start menu and a lot of times your settings button will be displayed here if not you can just go to the search uh setting type in settings hit enter and then it's going to take you right into the settings for your computer we're going to scroll down here until we get to the part part um for Activation says activation State subscription Etc and you'll see here that Windows 11 is in S Mode we can click this button here S Mode open store and it tells us to install apps that aren't Microsoft approved um requires you to switch out of s mode so if we click that open store it's going to take us to this app in the Microsoft store where we can switch out of S Mode now it does say hey once you switch out of S Mode you can't go back there's no reason you'd want to go back so once we hit get here it's going to run the program that switches us out of s mode and puts our computer into standard Windows mode it says congratulations you switched out and you can now install apps that aren't from the App Store so if we go back here into our downloads to where I had downloaded uh some of the programs that I was trying to install we can try to download it again or install the download again and we'll see that this time we're not going to get that Microsoft error it is going to actually allow us to install the program so there you go uh very simple and easy to switch out of s mode if you like this video like And subscribe

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Length: 2min 18sec (138 seconds)

Published: Mon Dec 25 2023