windows 8.1 problem

Frostswg77ub17_ESO · August 2014

in march I got a new pc with win 8.1 , last month I made a mistake and downloaded an app. which required me to sign into a Microsoft account to do. and it took over. I now have to log into m y Microsoft account to use my computer, which is annoying, my downloads are slower now as well since then I was updating eso at 300-500/sec

now I get 100/sec if I am not doing anything else.

how can I undo this and get my computer back to normal where when hit the power button it goes strate to my desktop. hopefully with out loosing anything, I have tried creating another account but I seem to be missing a step as the new account has no internet use.

Elf_Boy · August 2014

I have win 8.1 and not so long ago made the same jump to using a Microsoft based log in rather then a local one, due to some stupid app I needed to use requiring I have a windows ID blah blah blah.

All that said, I have not and am not seeing any kind of performance hit or penalty.

You may want to check concurrently running processes and what is set to auto-start, either in the start-up folder, msconfig and/or the service manager.

You may have an undesirable, naughty, or just plain bad piece of something that creeped and crawled into your system.

Brabok · August 2014

agreed.
just made the change myself and have no performance issues whatsoever...
if anything i am tempted to say its never run better, but that might also be a sideeffect of the SSD as c:\ wich i started to use when i switched OS.

sounds indeed like you have something other than that going on in your runnig processes.

i find ProcessExplorer a more useful task manager than the one coming with windows. easier to spot if any program runs amok on your resources.