Thanks, Chuck, looks like I have some more work to do.
Charlie
On Mon, Aug 8, 2016 at 10:29 PM, Chuck Norcutt <
chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Charlie, you have much more to worry about than the name on an account.
> After reading this you will probably decide to delete the Microsoft account
> as well as change numerous things in Windows 10 setup to preserve personal
> privacy. Get ready, there are about 20 settings you'll need to attend to
> and they're not all in one place and easily found. <
> http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/bitwise/2015/08/
> windows_10_privacy_problems_here_s_how_bad_they_are_and_
> how_to_plug_them.html>
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
>
> On 8/8/2016 10:16 AM, Charles Geilfuss wrote:
>
>> Greetings All,
>> Had an odd experience this weekend and I hope someone here may be able
>> to
>> shed some light. On Saturday I purchased a new laptop PC for my daughter.
>> It is a Dell Insperion with Windows 10. We set it up on Sunday. One of the
>> first steps is it asks you to set up a Microsoft Account. I typed in my
>> daughter's name, e-mail address and a password she selected. I clicked on
>> the "Next" button only to get an error message, with her last name
>> highlighted, stating the name cannot be accepted. I deleted and re-typed
>> the name thinking I had accidentally inserted a space after the name. No
>> luck, same error message. I checked to make sure the e-mail account has
>> the
>> same user name. Tried re-typing everything, same error message. In
>> frustration I called Geek Squad at the store where purchased and explained
>> the problem. They had never heard of such a thing.Then my wife remembered
>> the same thing happened to her at work when they started using MS Office
>> 365. She tried to register and it would not take her last name. The IT
>> person where she works told her to just make up a last name and that did
>> the trick. Finally I replaced my daughter's last name with her initial "G"
>> and that was accepted. Set up went fine from that point.
>> Has anyone else had this experience or have any clue what is so
>> confounding to MS about my last name? My only thought is that my German
>> last name contains the word "geil" which in German means sexy or mystical.
>> Perhaps some AI at MS thought I was typing a bad word.
>>
>> Clueless Charlie
>>
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