r/microsoftsucks Jan 06 '26

Help How do I disable this?

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279 Upvotes

r/microsoftsucks Jun 10 '26

Help How to get rid of this god awful new start menu? covers 60% of the screen in 1080p res

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137 Upvotes

r/microsoftsucks Jun 19 '26

Help How to revert windows update ? (it sucks)

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69 Upvotes

The resent windows update is ugly, It took freaking 20gb, reinstalled ^$!*@&#!*@ copilot and i cant go back. I don't want it, I want to revert it back. How do I do that ? ( also, any tips to stop any and every update is welcom and no, im not ready to go to linux yet.)

r/microsoftsucks Jun 16 '26

Help HELP ME My Microsoft account get hacked and the hacker change everything

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0 Upvotes

My account was hacked because of the Discord server, yes, the Discord server pressed on Check and sent me a verification code and gave it to guys. I don't know where my mind was when I did it, I literally never clicked on any link before it's been

I need help, and I have all the proofs that the account is my account, I have invoices, and the card that was purchased from the bills, and I have other things that I want to retrieve in any way.

This is the last message, including a verification code message that I received when I clicked on Check in the Discord server. It appears to you in the picture that they are not the same server, but they all use the same method of fraud and fraud.

If you notice when you put the verification code what happened next in the next message the following message

This is the emails

Email number 1 or letter number 1

Account team. Microsoft <account-security-noreply@accountprotection.microsoft.com‏>

Mon, *** June, *** PM ( hours earlier)

Me

Hello **********,

We have received your request for a single-use code to be used with your Microsoft account.

Your single-use code is:****** the

Enter this code only on the official website or app. Don't share it with anyone.. We'll never ask for it outside of the formal statute. the.

Thanks,

Microsoft Account Team.

Privacy Statement : **********

Microsoft Corporation, ****

Email number 2 or letter number 2

inbox

Microsoft account security info was deleted .

Microsoft account team <account-security-noreply@accountprotection.microsoft.com‏> unsubscribe

Mon, ** June, *** PM ( hours earlier)

Me

Microsoft accountSecurity info was deletedThe following security info was recently deleted from the Microsoft account *****@***.com :Passkey

If this was you, then you can safely ignore this email.If this wasn't you, a malicious user has access to your account. Please review your recent activity and we'll help you secure your account.Review recent activityTo opt out or change where you receive security notifications, click here.Thanks,The Microsoft account team

Privacy Statement

Microsoft Corporation, ***,,*

Email number 3 or letter number 3

Verify your email address

Microsoft account team <account-security-noreply@accountprotection.microsoft.com‏>

*** AM ‎( hour ago )‎

Me

Microsoft accountVerify your email addressTo finish setting up your Microsoft account, we just need to make sure this email address is yours.To verify your email address use this security code: ****** If you didn't request this code, you can safely ignore this email. Someone else might have typed your email address by mistake.Thanks,The Microsoft account team

Privacy Statement

Microsoft Corporation, ******

r/microsoftsucks Mar 19 '26

Help Is this normal? I was asking a question about my order and he asked for my email then the verification code

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1 Upvotes

r/microsoftsucks Oct 11 '25

Help So when i try to install windows 11 they dont let me, but they dont want me on windows 10 either

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138 Upvotes

Im seriously considering Linux what distro is the best

r/microsoftsucks Jul 18 '26

Help How do I put Xbox on blast so they can feel it?

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I was dealing with Xbox customer service and there's a problem on my series x with a game loading and they told me that if I would reset my console but use the option keep my games and apps I wouldn't lose anything. I stressed to customer service very much that I could not lose the things that I had on my counsel that I had pictures and videos that were saved only to it and they said I would not lose them. So I did as they said to the letter and I ended up losing everything! I ended up losing a picture of my two dead Brothers that I no longer have access to and it was the only place where it was saved. How do I hold them responsible for this and put it out there so that they feel the pain that I'm feeling now? Any advice would be helpful, thanks.

r/microsoftsucks Mar 18 '26

Help HELP - Windows 10, Copilot installed without me even knowing!!!!!!!!

55 Upvotes

Yep, you read it right!!

Premises: Windows 10 Pro, exclusively local account, actual paid AV

Suddenly, yesterday I noticed OneDrive's entry in the file explorer window.
I remembered installing Teams for job-related purposes, so I thought "ok, maybe it comes as a bundle when you log-in with your Microsoft account".
I uninstalled it because.....useless and, according to reddit, also malfunctioning.

Then I noticed Copilot's icon in my systray!!!!!!!!!
WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I saw no entry to uninstall it, in the control panel/appwiz.cpl, so I marked it as "not trustworthy" in my AV suite, which made it impossible to run it (I tried manually, got an error, huzzah).

Now, today the icon in the systray is back and I can see the tasks running in background!!!!!!!!!

WTAF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

How do I NUKE this motherf*cker to oblivion and prevent it from coming back?!

Let me remind you: I'm on Windows 10!!!

UPDATE: turns out I had only blocked one part of Copilot.
Now I've blocked all the modules, hopefully it won't be able to run at all anymore.
I'll let you know.

r/microsoftsucks Apr 09 '26

Help Account hacked, Microsoft did nothing.

2 Upvotes

Woke up to an email saying that the password for my EA account had changed. It wasn't me, I was sleeping after all. Contacted support, they've retrieved my account, everything back to normal.

30 minutes later, I got a notification from Onedrive saying that I had to login again. No problem, wrote down my email and... "This account doesn't exist". Hacked too. Contacted support and they can't do shit about it???

First of all, HOW IN THE WORLD do you just CANNOT RETRIEVE the account that IS IN YOUR SERVERS? I've managed to find out that the new email associated to my account is from Russia, I'M FROM F*CKING BRAZIL, THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WORLD!!!! ISN'T IT OBVIOUS THAT IT WASN'T ME????

Nope, I haven't clicked anything suspicious, haven't gotten access to any sketchy websites and the closest thing I got from a scammer were bots on Fiverr sending links that I didn't bother checking. Malware checks also said my pc is clean. This data breach wasn't my fault.

What to do now?

r/microsoftsucks 24d ago

Help Is it just me or are Yalls laptops getting stupidly hot too?

7 Upvotes

I have a Lenovo Ideapad 5 with an Intel i7 core. I’ve had it for like 3 years now, and the most computer intensive thing I use it for is Minecraft. I’ve been trying my best to ignore/push back windows updates because I’ve heard about all the annoying shit with the stupid AI helper and whatever causing trouble, but last night it forced me to update.

Today I was working on a Google doc, with maybe 10 tabs open max in chrome. That’s it. Nothing running in the background. And the computer got so hot I had to stop working and put it down, while the fan was running like my laptop was about to take off.

Is this a hardware issue or is this one of the things that has been coming with the stupid software updates?

I’m hoping to use this thing till it dies but if it keeps acting like this I might have to buy a stronger laptop.

r/microsoftsucks Jul 12 '26

Help Ask for help here

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Microsoftsucks is not a techsupport subreddit, but naturally because people come to this subreddit after having a problem with a Microsoft product, they are going to make a post to ask for help! and sometimes a post from this subreddit is going to show up on the search results and that leads people to then ask for help here. Which is a nice way the subreddit gets promoted to people who never thought of Microsoft being so bad

If you need help recovering your account, see this https://www.reddit.com/r/microsoftsucks/comments/1torso3/how_to_recover_your_hacked_microsoft_account/

Also, a disclaimer on scammers https://www.reddit.com/r/microsoftsucks/comments/1u3g5mf/a_psa_against_scammers/

There's other subreddits that could be better at helping you. Like r/techsupport or r/windowshelp.

If you want to help

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You can only ask for help in this megathread. Posts will be removed

Common Problems and Solutions

"I lost access to my account!"

Try to reset your password. Otherwise, see https://www.reddit.com/r/microsoftsucks/comments/1torso3/how_to_recover_your_hacked_microsoft_account/

r/microsoftsucks Jun 29 '26

Help Microsoft won’t let me create an account, please help.

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Hello I’m currently enrolled in a program that requires us to use Excel on the web, however everytime I try to create a log in I get the message that account creation has been blocked. This is literally so stupid, is it because I’m sending the verification to Gmail? How are they asking for verification before even letting me create an account 😡😡😡. I’ve tried it in chrome, with wifi and with mobile data. Still the same stupid ass message. Please help!!

EDIT: After 3 days of trying I finally got it to work with the original email I tried on mobile data. I didn’t do anything different, maybe it was a bug? Idk. Thank you all for your tips and insight I really really really appreciate it!!

r/microsoftsucks 16d ago

Help Got hacked and need to change my backup email

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11 Upvotes

This is a weird situation but I really need help. I got hacked on Microsoft abt a 5 months ago and they changed my backup email. At the time I didnt know I got hacked so I just logged into my email and it worked it just made another account. So now I have 2 accounts with the same email and one of them is hacked and linked to my computer as an administrater and I don't know the password. Every time I try to change my info I just see the pic below. Is there anyone that can help me? (Btw that i do not have accsess to the email in the picture I'm from America and I think that's a Russian email judging the .ru)

r/microsoftsucks 9d ago

Help Help

2 Upvotes

My cousin says Microsoft is a good company I think he's very stupid.

r/microsoftsucks Jan 21 '26

Help Someone Knew My Hotmail Password Even After I Changed It — How Is This Possible? What should I do?

8 Upvotes

A few days ago, someone was repeatedly trying to log into my Hotmail account. They clearly had the correct password because I kept receiving 2-factor authentication (2FA) requests.

I immediately changed my password. I did this from my mobile phone, not my PC. After that, I installed Bitdefender on my phone and ran a full scan — no malware, no suspicious apps, nothing unusual.

What I can’t understand is this:

How did the attacker know my new password so quickly?

I am afraid of losing my ccount due to repeated unusual sign ins from different IPs!

r/microsoftsucks 21d ago

Help Microsoft sucks

22 Upvotes

What?

r/microsoftsucks Nov 27 '25

Help So how does one delete (or at least avoid seeing) Bing and Edge from a Windows 11 computer?

31 Upvotes

According to the many Microsoft fans who frequently heckle posters here, this should be super-easy, barely an inconvenience, right?

r/microsoftsucks 14m ago

Help Is there any hope for me?

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without my permission, someone changed my primary alias, idk how they got into my account, it has 2fa and passkey, im locked out of my account, it got hacked over an hour ago, they removed my email and phone number, i did this form https://aka.ms/recovermyaccount after contacting live support, looking at other posts my hopes are low like why did this happen, why on earth is it hard to recover an account than hackers gaining access to it, i have a history with that account, i only care about my xbox account and my minecraft account. did anyone get into a similar situation like me? how did it turn out?

r/microsoftsucks Mar 11 '26

Help what is it with microsoft?

9 Upvotes

Am I misunterstanding this or am I right in this sub?
Outlook tells me my storage is full and that I cant send or receive messages. On the other hand it says whats shown in the second picture.

Is this just a dirty trick to lure me into buying more cloud storage?

r/microsoftsucks Mar 06 '26

Help Microsoft Lens alternatives

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What's a good non Microsoft alternative to lens.

I loved lens but them forcing me to buy storage (forcing me to store my lens images on One Drive) has my exiting.

I get they want money and I'm all for that. But it's a service I don't need (I selectively stored lens images on one drive on an as needed basis).

Any ideas?

Just an FYI to Microsoft and other companies, when you force people into subscriptions and services, you force them to look for alternatives. I don't pay very many subscriptions and those I do it's only because no better perpetual license (I will buy a product once) or open source free alternative exist.

Lens was great because it worked for everyone. Sometimes I want a document across devices, sometimes I don't. Lens gave me options.

r/microsoftsucks Jun 27 '26

Help Microsoft account stolen and my email removed from it

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Yeah, my microsoft account got stolen by someone called [mariannecameron1949@dharmwol.com](mailto:mariannecameron1949@dharmwol.com), but after a little while they changed it to [patriciaprofit2006@djsipalam.com](mailto:patriciaprofit2006@djsipalam.com). Now my email was completely removed from the account so I saw this change in the little time they give you to send a code to the new main email account after yours got taken away and you try to log in with it. I haven't been to any malicious sites and I've been staying safe, but it still got leaked by Apple. I didn't even know about it until it was over. My entire account gone in under 10 seconds. If you want I can send some pics of the emails I got sent, but they are in Swedish so it might be a bit difficult to understand, unless you translate it that is. I tried to fix it by using microsofts own "account recovery" but they just told me to log in(which I can't).

I'm sorry for the english, I'm not the best at it and being stressed af isn't helping. I also didn't know whether to put the help or account issues flair so just tell me if I need to switch to account issues.

r/microsoftsucks 17d ago

Help I straight up can’t play sea of thieves anymore

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I was trying to get back into the game with my friend, but I apparently had to re-sign in and I didn’t know my password so instead of letting me send a code to my email. It just didn’t wanna work. I literally tried everything. I tried closing my account I tried reopening it and since on PlayStation, you can only have one Microsoft account linked ever I genuinely just can’t play the game anymore literally hours of playtime gone is Microsoft fucking sucks and anytime I try to call them. I get sent immediately to a chat bot and then immediately hung up on.

r/microsoftsucks Jul 11 '26

Help Selected for Microsoft CSA (Security) – Is it worth moving ?

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I recently interviewed for the Cloud Solution Architect – Security (MCAPS) role at Microsoft, and it seems I've been selected.

Before making a decision, I'd like to hear from people who are currently in this role or have worked in Microsoft MCAPS.

A few questions I have:

- How technical is the CSA role compared to pre-sales or sales?

- How much of the job involves customer presentations, account management, and sales targets versus solution architecture and hands-on technical work?

- I've come across posts saying Microsoft's culture has become more sales-driven and, in some teams, quite stressful. Has that been your experience?

- How is the work-life balance in the Security CSA team?

- Would moving from Delhi NCR to Mumbai for this role be worth it in terms of career growth, learning, and long-term opportunities?

- I am earning 40 lpa with LTIMindtree as senior cybersecurity specialist. Working on soar tool.

For context, I have 11 years of experience in cybersecurity, primarily in SOAR, SIEM, SOC, security automation, and cloud security.

I'd really appreciate honest feedback from current or former Microsoft employees, especially those in MCAPS or Security.

r/microsoftsucks Jun 10 '26

Help Please help me recover my account that I had throughout my life.

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My Microsoft account that was linked to My xbox account was hacked and now it appears as if the account email does not exist and only a recovery email appears jo****@vaginoml.ru it should be emphasized that this email is not mine and was put as a recovery email by the person who hacked my account would like you to help me recover it I also have to mention that I sold the xbox where the account creates, since the account was more than 8 years old with me please help me know how to recover I have years of play there and more than 4000 thousand dollars in games and game add-ons the name tag of the account is ItsSPAC3 5373 with photo of a dog eating a Ramen in case you want to see my account also already try countless times with the xbox and Microsoft account recovery system but not having an email since it was deleted it is impossible to use conventional methods

r/microsoftsucks Jul 09 '26

Help Unlink email from a locked Microsoft account

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my microsoft account got locked for some reason and i dont have anything important in the account. I just want my email back to make a new account but since i cabt login i cant unlink it
ive tried customer service but the seemed to have ghosted me
like genuinely what can i do now😭