S mode was one of the dumbest things they ever did. They claim it's for 'security' but really it was meant to drive traffic to the MS Store. (because otherwise it would have almost none). All S mode did was annoy people.
But it IS a security feature actually. Because MS wants to secure its market share and the Mac Moneysack people at Redmond are eager after securing constant money flow into their moneybags. And they want to secure the constant grabbing of our data without our permission 😁💲💲💲 which they sell to services and ministries.
You are absolutely right. But Microsoft never cared, and never will care, how forcing its users to do what it wants them to do negatively impacts them. It is one of, if not the, biggest corporations in the world and only cares about exerting its power and influence over it. The world knows this, but uses its products anyway. I've switched to Chromebook and will never look back. Unfortunately, I need a third party app that only works in Windows, so I bought my wife a Windows laptop to install it on. Lo and behold, the nasty S-mode prevented me from doing so until I managed to disable it (something went wrong...something went wrong...something went wrong...), thanks to help from my step grandson.
Worked 👏🏻…just one thing, At the beginning of the process in my case the systems asked me for my recovery key, it happens because the drive is protected by bitlocker, it is necessary to deactivate it with the digital key because it does not work if that step is passed. I wanted to share my experience with all of you because the first time I skipped that step and it didn't work for me, after I did it right it worked. Very thankful about the information in this channel …really appreciate it. Thanks. 🙏🏻
As an alternative... Boot normally, go to the C: drive, right click and disable/turn off Bitlocker. Then shutdown and make BIOS change. Then on next boot, turn Bitlocker back on. That way you don't have to write down or print out the Key and enter it when trying to get into BIOS.
Hey sir. Dropping in from Jamaica🇯🇲 to tell you THANK YOU SOOOOO MUCH!!!! You helped get me out of that STUPID s mode......it had been a restrictive nightmare! Sir, you have helped THOUSANDS and words cant even begin to describe how very grateful we are. Big up urself 😉 Sending love from Jamaica 🇯🇲
My friend bought a laptop that came with S Mode enabled. When he tried to turn it off it would give an error. We eventually fixed it by reinstalling Windows, but it still sucks that it came with it enabled.
Just letting everyone know that even if you have a Microsoft account set up and already done this work around worked for me!! Do exactly as he says word for word and it works thanks man!
There’s a very easy way to get into the bios without having to find out your bios key. All you have to do is to go into settings, recovery mode, restart now, then when you get to the blue screen go to troubleshoot, advanced options, and Uefi firmware settings
You are a life saver! I had to get a new laptop after my 10+ old one messed up as this one came in S mode. M support tried to get me to spend 200 dollars to get a key to disable it. This completely turned my day around.
Glad I stumbled onto this video. I bought a used refurbished PC, a Dell Optiplex (7th gen i5) and it does not have S mode, or it's turned off. I do run Windows 11 Pro, 22H2 but I can capture from OBS just fine. I had NO idea that the S mode was a thing, let alone prevents non MS software from seeing the computer, like OBS. The place where I bought it is a local computer store here in town that sells both desktops and laptops, Windows/Apple, along with new parts for a DIY build. I don't consider myself a total noob with PC's as I have built a PC once, done many upgrades and used a Windows PC going back to the 386 days.
@@DerekFrampton A/V sure, but gamers? Hardly the case these days, unless you're playing something that has an Anti-Cheat where the devs haven't flipped a simple switch to allow Linux.
Try make your grandma use Linux ... You wiill get called for help over and again 😘 I do get your point however and I have dual boot on my PC to select either Mint or 11.
When I disabled Secure Boot, Windows wouldn't boot because it was BitLocker encrypted, so I turned it back on, booted in, decrypted (which I was surprised it allowed me to do), and retried. After that, your tutorial worked flawlessly. Thank you so much for this video. Everyone else has outdated junk information that is useless. I would have been lost without your help.
OHMYGOD THANK YOU!!! I had tried disabling s mode, I’d tried everything else RUclips told me over and over. I literally followed every step through to the end of the video and S mode is gone!!! That was the most technically advanced thing I’ve ever done, this is so not my wheelhouse but you made it so easy to understand. Liked and subscribed thank you!!!!
Acer notebooks require you to set a bios password to turn off secure boot Go to security, set the administrator (bios) password, (1111 works fine) then go back and turn off secure boot then you can go back and disable the administrator password by entering it once, then leaving the both of the new PW box empty. HP also is the only one that requires the "bios captcha" from what I have seen.
I had to use the registry option, but man this worked and thank you. I could not get out of S mode no matter what I tried. Appreciate you sharing this info for all of us to benefit from.
Thank you so much. I just got an acer today for school, going for CIS, and simply wanted to download chrome. I didn’t mind signing in with my outlook account but I guess the servers are down or something because every time I tried to switch out of S mode it would say “Try Again Later”. I found your vid from last year and did all the steps but it was still in S mode. But something told me to just check your other vids and I found this one. I am so thankful. I was able to finally get it out S mode. Thanks so much! For all of your help, you’ve got a new subscriber!
S Mode should NOT exist. It is like buying a house but you get a TOS from a rented apartment (no pets, no improvements, no noise after 10pm, etc etc etc.)_
There are some situations that demand it. For example, most of the little microPCs like he used for his demo, end up screwed to the VESA mount on the back of a monitor that's one of 200 in an acre-sized room full of cubicles. Network administrators would go nuts without S mode on those PCS. That's why it's NOT enabled on DIY motherboards but is enabled on PCs bound for enterprise use.
Brand new Wal-Mart HP here. After initial setup, it would not kill S-mode for me. I reset da whole thang, set it up again with updates exactly how I did it initially and it killed S-mode upon request! Thank for da video! Mike in DFW
Yayyyyy! At last that stupid s mode is gone! All the support threads on Microsoft were useless and I could not get rid of s mode. I think they just want you to give up and live in the tiny little constricted land of s mode forever. I was afraid to go searching this deep into the bowels of my new laptop but you were a good guide and got me there and back safely. Thank you thank you thank you! I just installed Google, and next I can install lightburn.
I was getting crazy trying to deactivate S mode in an Acer laptop that wasn't able to connect to WiFi because it didn't have the wifi drivers, so i downloaded from another PC just to get to that stupid message saying that I couldn't install the drivers cause of S mode... After getting mad for 30 minutes trying to figure how to achieve that, I found this video and just by getting into the BIOS, establishing a "supervisor password" and deactivating secure boot I finally was able to continue the installation of all the drivers. ¡Love you big beard Bro!
Loved the content! As an aside, I also went out and ordered a Mini PC exactly like yours. Was looking for a Mini yesterday, and when I saw yours today, I asked "Why not that one?!"
Thank you so much , I bought a Asus Laptop today and this is the only thing that worked . I started the computer up hit f2 rapidly entered the BIOS went into , Disabled secure boot as you said . And amazingly when I started and wasn’t to the about section I it said windows 11 home only without S mode . Thank you so much . I hope other ppl watch this so they can get help
Thanks for your last video as disabling it without a MS account was a required. I made a throw away account when I bought my parents an inexpensive laptop to set them up on zoom. They are in their 80 and *0's. Promptly forgot about the account. A year later bought another budget laptop with Windows 11 in S mode. Found it impossible to create another throwaway account as my phone number is already used. So I had a new PC I could browse the web, but not install any software with. couldn't even use the trial Office 360 program without logging in with long forgotton credentials. 3 months later, your video was found. Exited S mode and installed the software for my non MS applications. Thanks. A year later upgraded to a multi-touch touchscreen model. Now they added Bitlocker to the mix of things needing disabled to make the change. Thanks for the great work. Still don't know my MS username and password, but do know my phone number. Don't care.
Followed the instructions for a brand new Acer aspire 5 that would not allow me to disable s mode and that was with a Microsoft account. I attempted to shut off s mode via the store and pressing the "get" button however mine continued to fail and said "try again" so I needed to look for a workaround and your method even though I had my Microsoft account enabled worked flawlessly!! Thank you!!
MS must be on to this tip... my "SKU Policy Required" was not 1 but already at "0"(but went through the motions of 'zeroing' the value anyway)... Double-checked Windows specs each time after doing both sets of steps... S-Mode still on 😫😫! Thanks anyway for the detailed tutorial!
Unbeknown to me (and probably her too) my wife's HP laptop upgraded itself from Windows 10 Home to Windows 11 and somehow got put into S mode. She doesn't use the laptop very often, but when she tried to install Zoom it wouldn't let her. Then she tried Chrome with the same results. I tried the first CyberCPU Tech video on how to switch S Mode off but it didn't work. I tried again, in case I messed up somehow, with the same results even though I followed the instructions to the letter. The laptop was running version 22H2. Then I came across this video, which starts out with the "just turn off Secure Boot in Bios" which was stupid easy and worked like a charm. I didn't want to temp fate and try to toggle it off and on using the second method. Just for grins I installed Chrome and it was routine. Thanks for the tip on toggling Secure Boot off and on.
Oh my god bro thank u so much for this video I tried all sorts of ways for hours to disable this thing and nothing worked but your video did and I'm really happy now
Gosh, for a while I thought this was about a single language Windows, as I read it somewhere recently. Had to google what S mode actually is. And this is what I found: - It’s more secure because it only allows apps to be installed from the Microsoft Store. - It’s streamlined to reduce RAM and CPU use. - Everything a user does is automatically saved to OneDrive to free up local storage. HELL NO! If for nothing else, then OneDrive automatic upload is a big NO NO for me. I want to OWN my data, not being held ransom by somebody else's server. Besides, Microsoft store hosted a trojan previously, as I found out second hand. Can you sandbox and virustotal apps on MS app store?
There is no reason to have s mode at all. They should not buy a computer in the first place if they will "mess things up." Why not just buy an android tablet or iPad? They have more APPs
Sir if i could kiss your feet, i would 😭😭😭 literally bought a new computer a few hours ago and ive been agonizing over this till i was in tears. I love you and ur beautiful brain ❤❤❤
Hello, excellent work. I want to help a little. It turns out that I was using a client's HP laptop and following your steps it didn't work. Until I calmly saw why. It turns out that at minute 10:36 of the video "you clarify very well that the system is not that of drive X, that drive C must be selected manually", but if they are in a hurry and they overlooked that warning you make, then they will be working on Drive X, so when they restart the system, everything will remain the same. Very good work, from now on I subscribe to your channel, I am not an IT engineer, I am a Delphi programmer, but I still like that part of Tech. Regards.
if you don't know how to enter in bios: when you restart the computer from windows press Shift key in the same time (restart button from start menu + shift). This thing will get you in recovery mode from recovery you need to go to troubleshoot>advanced options and click on uefi firmware settings.
No, even with account, we kept getting "Try Again". We had to disable Secure Boot, then change SKUpolicy to 0, then download and set Chrome to default, then turn on Secure Boot. Was a cheap HP laptop. Many others suffer same issue with those cheap machines.
@@BsSands We had to boot in the BIOS, then disable Secure Boot, then log on in, then change SKUpolicy to 0, then download and set Chrome to default, then boot back up in BIOS to turn Secure Boot back on, then log in and we were golden. Was a cheap HP laptop. Many others suffer same issue with those cheap machines.
I did a video about it a long time ago. It's the PiBoy DMG. It's a raspberry pi Gameboy clone. It's really good. ruclips.net/video/jl68O2jnvVw/видео.html
There's only one thing I'd add to the Secure Boot section. In my netbook bios you can't change the security settings unless you have a Supervisor password. So you add one, change the settings, remove it once you're done.
I'm a computer technician, and ran into an "S Mode cannot be uninstalled because of a problem!"-type error on a customer's machine this video was exactly what I needed. thanks!
There is one easy way to do that. If you have installation media just reinstall Windows. S mode will be gone on that computer and you will not see it on there again. Once you get a computer of of S mode you can not get it back in that I know of. That may have been deliberate so that someone can't mess with it and reenable S mode giving you a false sense of security. Other than locking down a PC I am not sure how secure S mode really is.
Have a asus vivobook x515dap_m515DA It works and this laptop has almost the same bios as presented, (version 2.20.1271). For the bios in this asus, it does not allow you to toggle the active (enable/disable). That ability was removed… what you can do is toggle the “secure boot control”… go from enable to disable… then play regedit and set to 0… then return to bios to enable “secure boot control”. Enjoy.
My windows 11 home edition was unboxed with the S mode turned off. Even though I have a home edition I keep getting a message saying some features are controlled by my company? Why?
have you connected to a organisation account and and click yes to give permission to the organisation admin to control the pc ? if yes then that why. if not , it can be a malware the cause or that someone have used that pc before and join a domain (but that only if the pc is used and not new)
@@xgui4-studios I have my desktop at home and I am retired. I don't have an organization to connect to. I have tried several malware programs and nothing is flagged. I also installed postmaster just recently. Also systeminternals Suite .
@@xgui4-studios I purchased the computer brand new and it came with windows 10. Microsoft sent me an offer to upgrade to windows 11 home edition for free so I installed that pkg.
Microsoft must have closed your loophole again. Cannot load the (C-Drive) Hive in the registry. When I try to load the hive, the C Drive does NOT show in the drives listed. So that fix does not work anymore.
You need to install your controller drivers in recovery. Some newer systems have storage controllers that are not part of Windows already and need to be installed first. You would do this by going to the format drive section of setup and pushing the button that says install drivers. Then install drivers that you download from another computer from your manufacturer's website. Then go back in the setup to the beginning and go into recovery.
you are the best!!! thank you so much for helping get rid of stupid mode!! no one else mentioned having to turn off secure mode so I couldn't open the C drive in regedit. p.s. I like your beard!!
I have a different experience. I tried the full regedit method and did successfully set the policy to zero (verified by going through the process again). The system still booted into S mode! So then I disabled secure boot. That worked!
Windows and Linux user here. These last few weeks I've been thinking of ditching Windows all together, since the only thing I do on my Windows PC anyway is gaming and RUclips. Everything else I do on my Linux Mint PC. But ever since they announced Microsoft Recall I've been thinking of trying out Linux for my gaming needs too. The only thing that held me back is lazyness at this point.
Thabk you so much I actually have a microsoft account and when I tried to get the off switch it would just say something went wrong this was my only method to actually use my computer
I have upgraded all of my older PC's using your method and it was successful, but I have run into a problem. Whenever I attempt to open a file using a double click on the file, I get the message "Access Denied when Accessing the user profile". I've checked the security on the file and on the application which is attempting to open the file and everything seems to be OK. When I right click on the file and use the open with command, the file opens normally. Have you either created a video to address this problem or do you know how to fix it?
I made a MS account just for the sake of less stress. Unfortunately I didn’t know what “S mode “ was about at the time of purchase. Fortunately for me this is a brand new HP laptop from Wallyworld. It being only Three days old it’s going back . What a damm headache 😂
S Mode must be saved deeper than any of us think. I can give long details (one of those endless battles) but the short: Our charity was given an acer Home S mode. I needed to get it to Pro. (BTW Bios does not allow turning off safe boot.) Booted from rescue stick, in Cmd, Diskpart, ran Clean, so disk has not partitions or anything. Booted from my Win Pro install (we have open license) and installed clean. Came up in Win Pro S Mode. ?! And no way out. Used all of your tricks and many others. FYI, regedit, load hive, the entry you said change from 1 to 0? It was already 0, but still in S mode! Booted from rescue stick with Disk Genius, deleted all partitions and ran a security wipe overwriting entire disk. Then clean Pro install again, and FINALLY Win Pro no S mode.
Woohoo! Gone! Used little on this dual boot laptop but, need that freedom occasionally to do as I wish. I think the step missed earlier was to be sure to be on C drive and not the X drive. 🎉🎉
my key was set to 0 by default and the verifiedandreputable key was set to 2, windows 11 23h2 hp model 15-ef2033dx. STILL IN S MODE. also reloading os has [specialize] headers in the autounattended.xml setup script that prevents a plain install of windows from "sucessfuly installing"
I have a problem guys and I’d like to see if there’s a solution. So basically, I had a problem after I updated my computer a while back and recently fixed it. The problem was that all my USB ports shut down and only one was working which was my mouse. So I had no internet (internet router connected to my computers USB port), and my keyboard. I fixed it by resetting my PC and signing into my computer and then it worked. But now I have the same problem again. How to fix?
I can’t just “turn off S mode” the Get button just won’t work, it says Try Again, and “Something happened and we couldn’t start the upgrade” any ideas??? I’ve tried everything
No Secure Boot option in your BIOS ? In some BIOS model, you have to set an administrator password to see it. When you have well set the secure boot option, you can set again an admin pwd and leave the typing area empty to disable it. Then, save your BIOS modifications. Have a great deployment.
my HP PC win 11 is in S mode, I followed ur instruction but had to skip a step u don't mentioned, then found setting was at 0 anyway. I re entered 0 and finished step, but still have S mode.
I did reg key and then disable boot then it worked then I re enabled. Thanks for the video man! Well earned like here! Fuck S mode. Microsoft just went down in my head. Makes me love Linux all the more
Can you make an video about how to enable Windows Hello Fingerprint in Windows 10 ? I change my laptop motherboard because it broke an now i can't use my fingerprint to unlock my laptop .
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S mode was one of the dumbest things they ever did. They claim it's for 'security' but really it was meant to drive traffic to the MS Store. (because otherwise it would have almost none). All S mode did was annoy people.
But it IS a security feature actually. Because MS wants to secure its market share and the Mac Moneysack people at Redmond are eager after securing constant money flow into their moneybags. And they want to secure the constant grabbing of our data without our permission 😁💲💲💲 which they sell to services and ministries.
Whose security? Not ours.
It makes sense for the less tech literate family members that just click yes on everything. My problem is that you can't choose when to turn it on.
You are absolutely right. But Microsoft never cared, and never will care, how forcing its users to do what it wants them to do negatively impacts them. It is one of, if not the, biggest corporations in the world and only cares about exerting its power and influence over it. The world knows this, but uses its products anyway. I've switched to Chromebook and will never look back. Unfortunately, I need a third party app that only works in Windows, so I bought my wife a Windows laptop to install it on. Lo and behold, the nasty S-mode prevented me from doing so until I managed to disable it (something went wrong...something went wrong...something went wrong...), thanks to help from my step grandson.
bless your literal soul i bought a laptop for work and couldnt download anything. searched for HOURS today until i found this. you are a SAINT
a saint with a sick ass beard too
I usually spam ESC F1 F2 F10 DEL that should cover the majority of BIOS keys.
Ah yes the psychotic pianist😂😂you run through them in one clean sweep
I use CNTL-ALT-DEL and select shut down. It fixes every problem.
Worked 👏🏻…just one thing, At the beginning of the process in my case the systems asked me for my recovery key, it happens because the drive is protected by bitlocker, it is necessary to deactivate it with the digital key because it does not work if that step is passed.
I wanted to share my experience with all of you because the first time I skipped that step and it didn't work for me, after I did it right it worked.
Very thankful about the information in this channel …really appreciate it. Thanks. 🙏🏻
Same. Once I put key in all went smoothly
As an alternative... Boot normally, go to the C: drive, right click and disable/turn off Bitlocker. Then shutdown and make BIOS change. Then on next boot, turn Bitlocker back on. That way you don't have to write down or print out the Key and enter it when trying to get into BIOS.
Hey sir. Dropping in from Jamaica🇯🇲 to tell you THANK YOU SOOOOO MUCH!!!!
You helped get me out of that STUPID s mode......it had been a restrictive nightmare! Sir, you have helped THOUSANDS and words cant even begin to describe how very grateful we are. Big up urself 😉 Sending love from Jamaica 🇯🇲
My friend bought a laptop that came with S Mode enabled. When he tried to turn it off it would give an error. We eventually fixed it by reinstalling Windows, but it still sucks that it came with it enabled.
Tried dozens of approaches but after hours of searching, this was the only thing that worked. THANK YOU!
Just letting everyone know that even if you have a Microsoft account set up and already done this work around worked for me!! Do exactly as he says word for word and it works thanks man!
Thank you, thank you, thank you!! After 24 hours of messing around, this worked! Now my 86 year old mother will have a computer! Thank you!
Brilliant video. Thanks. I don't even need this method, but I've seen so many bad RUclips videos that I like to praise superb ones.
Great to hear!
@@CyberCPUpls reply to my comment to see if there’s a problem 🥺
There’s a very easy way to get into the bios without having to find out your bios key. All you have to do is to go into settings, recovery mode, restart now, then when you get to the blue screen go to troubleshoot, advanced options, and Uefi firmware settings
He was right next to it just before he clicked on Command Prompt when he was in Recovery Mode 😂
This should also solve s mode?
oh my god, you are a godsend. i had been trying to disable S mode for Hours, and im so thankful for this tutorial. thanks so much man
You are a life saver! I had to get a new laptop after my 10+ old one messed up as this one came in S mode. M support tried to get me to spend 200 dollars to get a key to disable it. This completely turned my day around.
Glad I stumbled onto this video. I bought a used refurbished PC, a Dell Optiplex (7th gen i5) and it does not have S mode, or it's turned off. I do run Windows 11 Pro, 22H2 but I can capture from OBS just fine. I had NO idea that the S mode was a thing, let alone prevents non MS software from seeing the computer, like OBS.
The place where I bought it is a local computer store here in town that sells both desktops and laptops, Windows/Apple, along with new parts for a DIY build. I don't consider myself a total noob with PC's as I have built a PC once, done many upgrades and used a Windows PC going back to the 386 days.
After trying a bunch of other stuff... this did the trick. Your the man! Got my Sub for sure!
Why fight so hard for an OS that hates you😭
Because Linux isn't used enough for programs to be used natively on Linux
'cause the only alternative is Linux, and while I ABSOLUTELY ADORE Linux, it's VERY limited for gamers, A/V peeps etc.
@_xPaPaDx u forgot about freebsd, openbsd, fireflybsd, nomadbsd, and the best os ever temple os.
@@DerekFrampton A/V sure, but gamers? Hardly the case these days, unless you're playing something that has an Anti-Cheat where the devs haven't flipped a simple switch to allow Linux.
Try make your grandma use Linux ...
You wiill get called for help over and again 😘
I do get your point however and I have dual boot on my PC to select either Mint or 11.
When I disabled Secure Boot, Windows wouldn't boot because it was BitLocker encrypted, so I turned it back on, booted in, decrypted (which I was surprised it allowed me to do), and retried. After that, your tutorial worked flawlessly. Thank you so much for this video. Everyone else has outdated junk information that is useless. I would have been lost without your help.
OHMYGOD THANK YOU!!!
I had tried disabling s mode, I’d tried everything else RUclips told me over and over. I literally followed every step through to the end of the video and S mode is gone!!! That was the most technically advanced thing I’ve ever done, this is so not my wheelhouse but you made it so easy to understand. Liked and subscribed thank you!!!!
Acer notebooks require you to set a bios password to turn off secure boot
Go to security, set the administrator (bios) password, (1111 works fine) then go back and turn off secure boot then you can go back and disable the administrator password by entering it once, then leaving the both of the new PW box empty.
HP also is the only one that requires the "bios captcha" from what I have seen.
I had to use the registry option, but man this worked and thank you. I could not get out of S mode no matter what I tried. Appreciate you sharing this info for all of us to benefit from.
Thank you so much. I just got an acer today for school, going for CIS, and simply wanted to download chrome. I didn’t mind signing in with my outlook account but I guess the servers are down or something because every time I tried to switch out of S mode it would say “Try Again Later”. I found your vid from last year and did all the steps but it was still in S mode. But something told me to just check your other vids and I found this one. I am so thankful. I was able to finally get it out S mode. Thanks so much! For all of your help, you’ve got a new subscriber!
Thank you so much for this… need this to run certain programs and been going in circles for hours. This solved my issue.
S Mode should NOT exist. It is like buying a house but you get a TOS from a rented apartment (no pets, no improvements, no noise after 10pm, etc etc etc.)_
Apple started this walled garden bs but Americans are such simps to the iphones
Like an HOA.
There are some situations that demand it. For example, most of the little microPCs like he used for his demo, end up screwed to the VESA mount on the back of a monitor that's one of 200 in an acre-sized room full of cubicles. Network administrators would go nuts without S mode on those PCS. That's why it's NOT enabled on DIY motherboards but is enabled on PCs bound for enterprise use.
@@LostInThe0zone HOA is S mode for windows.
S mode is like a Karen demanding you to swim with a life jacket during a diving course
You are a lifesaver! A relative of mine needed help with disabling s mode and the regedit method did the trick! Thank you very much
Brand new Wal-Mart HP here. After initial setup, it would not kill S-mode for me. I reset da whole thang, set it up again with updates exactly how I did it initially and it killed S-mode upon request! Thank for da video! Mike in DFW
Yayyyyy! At last that stupid s mode is gone! All the support threads on Microsoft were useless and I could not get rid of s mode. I think they just want you to give up and live in the tiny little constricted land of s mode forever. I was afraid to go searching this deep into the bowels of my new laptop but you were a good guide and got me there and back safely. Thank you thank you thank you! I just installed Google, and next I can install lightburn.
I was getting crazy trying to deactivate S mode in an Acer laptop that wasn't able to connect to WiFi because it didn't have the wifi drivers, so i downloaded from another PC just to get to that stupid message saying that I couldn't install the drivers cause of S mode... After getting mad for 30 minutes trying to figure how to achieve that, I found this video and just by getting into the BIOS, establishing a "supervisor password" and deactivating secure boot I finally was able to continue the installation of all the drivers.
¡Love you big beard Bro!
what the hell? S mode still exists outside Home Edition? that's illegal.
Loved the content! As an aside, I also went out and ordered a Mini PC exactly like yours. Was looking for a Mini yesterday, and when I saw yours today, I asked "Why not that one?!"
Thank you so much , I bought a Asus Laptop today and this is the only thing that worked .
I started the computer up hit f2 rapidly entered the BIOS went into , Disabled secure boot as you said . And amazingly when I started and wasn’t to the about section I it said windows 11 home only without S mode . Thank you so much . I hope other ppl watch this so they can get help
You are a GENIUS! Everything else I tried failed (even Windows Store) to disable S Mode. Thank you!
Thanks for your last video as disabling it without a MS account was a required.
I made a throw away account when I bought my parents an inexpensive laptop to set them up on zoom. They are in their 80 and *0's. Promptly forgot about the account.
A year later bought another budget laptop with Windows 11 in S mode. Found it impossible to create another throwaway account as my phone number is already used. So I had a new PC I could browse the web, but not install any software with. couldn't even use the trial Office 360 program without logging in with long forgotton credentials. 3 months later, your video was found. Exited S mode and installed the software for my non MS applications. Thanks. A year later upgraded to a multi-touch touchscreen model. Now they added Bitlocker to the mix of things needing disabled to make the change. Thanks for the great work.
Still don't know my MS username and password, but do know my phone number. Don't care.
Good thing I came across your video. The BIOS method works for my laptop even though my system is running on Windows Home 22H2. Thank you!
A gentleman and a scholar, thanks very much, hours spent locked inside S mode, this solved it straight away 👍
Thank you so much, I have been in actual tears trying to sort this out and your video has truly saved the day.
Followed the instructions for a brand new Acer aspire 5 that would not allow me to disable s mode and that was with a Microsoft account. I attempted to shut off s mode via the store and pressing the "get" button however mine continued to fail and said "try again" so I needed to look for a workaround and your method even though I had my Microsoft account enabled worked flawlessly!! Thank you!!
MS must be on to this tip... my "SKU Policy Required" was not 1 but already at "0"(but went through the motions of 'zeroing' the value anyway)... Double-checked Windows specs each time after doing both sets of steps... S-Mode still on 😫😫! Thanks anyway for the detailed tutorial!
Unbeknown to me (and probably her too) my wife's HP laptop upgraded itself from Windows 10 Home to Windows 11 and somehow got put into S mode. She doesn't use the laptop very often, but when she tried to install Zoom it wouldn't let her. Then she tried Chrome with the same results. I tried the first CyberCPU Tech video on how to switch S Mode off but it didn't work. I tried again, in case I messed up somehow, with the same results even though I followed the instructions to the letter. The laptop was running version 22H2.
Then I came across this video, which starts out with the "just turn off Secure Boot in Bios" which was stupid easy and worked like a charm. I didn't want to temp fate and try to toggle it off and on using the second method. Just for grins I installed Chrome and it was routine.
Thanks for the tip on toggling Secure Boot off and on.
S mode should be a toggle at login screen for people to switch over, not a seperate S mode system. This is ridiculous tbh.
Oh my god bro thank u so much for this video I tried all sorts of ways for hours to disable this thing and nothing worked but your video did and I'm really happy now
Gosh, for a while I thought this was about a single language Windows, as I read it somewhere recently. Had to google what S mode actually is. And this is what I found:
- It’s more secure because it only allows apps to be installed from the Microsoft Store.
- It’s streamlined to reduce RAM and CPU use.
- Everything a user does is automatically saved to OneDrive to free up local storage.
HELL NO! If for nothing else, then OneDrive automatic upload is a big NO NO for me. I want to OWN my data, not being held ransom by somebody else's server.
Besides, Microsoft store hosted a trojan previously, as I found out second hand. Can you sandbox and virustotal apps on MS app store?
There is no reason to have s mode at all. They should not buy a computer in the first place if they will "mess things up." Why not just buy an android tablet or iPad? They have more APPs
Sir if i could kiss your feet, i would 😭😭😭 literally bought a new computer a few hours ago and ive been agonizing over this till i was in tears. I love you and ur beautiful brain ❤❤❤
Hello, excellent work. I want to help a little. It turns out that I was using a client's HP laptop and following your steps it didn't work. Until I calmly saw why. It turns out that at minute 10:36 of the video "you clarify very well that the system is not that of drive X, that drive C must be selected manually", but if they are in a hurry and they overlooked that warning you make, then they will be working on Drive X, so when they restart the system, everything will remain the same.
Very good work, from now on I subscribe to your channel, I am not an IT engineer, I am a Delphi programmer, but I still like that part of Tech.
Regards.
Brother you are a God send and answer to prayer! Thank you!!!!
if you don't know how to enter in bios:
when you restart the computer from windows press Shift key in the same time (restart button from start menu + shift). This thing will get you in recovery mode
from recovery you need to go to troubleshoot>advanced options and click on uefi firmware settings.
Great tip. I didn't think of that.
Thank you so much 😭❤️ Ive tried almost everything until I came across this video ❤
No, even with account, we kept getting "Try Again". We had to disable Secure Boot, then change SKUpolicy to 0, then download and set Chrome to default, then turn on Secure Boot. Was a cheap HP laptop. Many others suffer same issue with those cheap machines.
Glad it helped.
I am still stuck in s mode. What was your solution?
@@BsSands We had to boot in the BIOS, then disable Secure Boot, then log on in, then change SKUpolicy to 0, then download and set Chrome to default, then boot back up in BIOS to turn Secure Boot back on, then log in and we were golden. Was a cheap HP laptop. Many others suffer same issue with those cheap machines.
After disabling secure boot, it worked.
Thanks for this.
First method failed, second method worked. Finally… thank you
what's the Gameboy looking thing with 6 buttons on the shelf behind you?
I did a video about it a long time ago. It's the PiBoy DMG. It's a raspberry pi Gameboy clone. It's really good.
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@@CyberCPU Thank you sir :)
There's only one thing I'd add to the Secure Boot section. In my netbook bios you can't change the security settings unless you have a Supervisor password. So you add one, change the settings, remove it once you're done.
Thank you!!! I was stuck on this until I read your comment and now I am finally free of S mode Thank you thank you thank you !!🎉
@@theboycanplay you're very much welcome.
YOU ARE A BLESSING MAN .. EASY TO UNDERSTAND U SHOULD REPLACE MICROSOFT EMPLOYEES
Finally one that worked, I subscribed immediately
I'm a computer technician, and ran into an "S Mode cannot be uninstalled because of a problem!"-type error on a customer's machine
this video was exactly what I needed. thanks!
Haven't seen that issue before. It's funny how working around Microsoft's requirements works better than doing it the way they intended. 🤣😂
There is one easy way to do that. If you have installation media just reinstall Windows. S mode will be gone on that computer and you will not see it on there again. Once you get a computer of of S mode you can not get it back in that I know of. That may have been deliberate so that someone can't mess with it and reenable S mode giving you a false sense of security. Other than locking down a PC I am not sure how secure S mode really is.
THIS HELPED THANK YOU SO MUCH!!
The one from a year ago i just watched and worked flawlessly, now on chrome THANKS!
Have a asus vivobook x515dap_m515DA
It works and this laptop has almost the same bios as presented, (version 2.20.1271).
For the bios in this asus, it does not allow you to toggle the active (enable/disable). That ability was removed… what you can do is toggle the “secure boot control”… go from enable to disable… then play regedit and set to 0… then return to bios to enable “secure boot control”.
Enjoy.
was just about to check my friends surface go 3 and so0Oo good to see this.
great video!
i disabled windows and just went straight to pop os.
i'm really starting to like it. works great for steam and gaming as well.
thanks!
My windows 11 home edition was unboxed with the S mode turned off. Even though I have a home edition I keep getting a message saying some features are controlled by my company? Why?
have you connected to a organisation account and and click yes to give permission to the organisation admin to control the pc ? if yes then that why. if not , it can be a malware the cause or that someone have used that pc before and join a domain (but that only if the pc is used and not new)
@@xgui4-studios I have my desktop at home and I am retired. I don't have an organization to connect to. I have tried several malware programs and nothing is flagged. I also installed postmaster just recently. Also systeminternals Suite .
@@xgui4-studios I purchased the computer brand new and it came with windows 10. Microsoft sent me an offer to upgrade to windows 11 home edition for free so I installed that pkg.
Love this Channel. Also...Thank you for the advertisement. I bought 4 😊keys
I tried everything on RUclips before this, and this is the only solution that worked. Thank f’in god bc I was about to lose it 😂
You’re awesome man. It really works!
awsome man,thanks again worked great
Excellent video!! thanks for the info. Nice touch at the end there Mr. Cobb.
Ahhh thank you so much!! Finally got rid of S mode
Microsoft must have closed your loophole again. Cannot load the (C-Drive) Hive in the registry. When I try to load the hive, the C Drive does NOT show in the drives listed. So that fix does not work anymore.
You need to install your controller drivers in recovery. Some newer systems have storage controllers that are not part of Windows already and need to be installed first.
You would do this by going to the format drive section of setup and pushing the button that says install drivers. Then install drivers that you download from another computer from your manufacturer's website. Then go back in the setup to the beginning and go into recovery.
you are the best!!! thank you so much for helping get rid of stupid mode!! no one else mentioned having to turn off secure mode so I couldn't open the C drive in regedit. p.s. I like your beard!!
I have a different experience. I tried the full regedit method and did successfully set the policy to zero (verified by going through the process again). The system still booted into S mode! So then I disabled secure boot. That worked!
It worked! I realized too that I probably did not go to systems in the local C drive too 😅
Hi CyberCPU Tech, the tutorial works for me in a DELL machine. Thank you for share your knowledge.
I'm very happy, it worked...
Windows and Linux user here. These last few weeks I've been thinking of ditching Windows all together, since the only thing I do on my Windows PC anyway is gaming and RUclips. Everything else I do on my Linux Mint PC.
But ever since they announced Microsoft Recall I've been thinking of trying out Linux for my gaming needs too. The only thing that held me back is lazyness at this point.
Thabk you so much I actually have a microsoft account and when I tried to get the off switch it would just say something went wrong this was my only method to actually use my computer
Me too!!!
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Intsructions unclear. Surface pro is now a Mac Pro.
I have upgraded all of my older PC's using your method and it was successful, but I have run into a problem. Whenever I attempt to open a file using a double click on the file, I get the message "Access Denied when Accessing the user profile". I've checked the security on the file and on the application which is attempting to open the file and everything seems to be OK. When I right click on the file and use the open with command, the file opens normally. Have you either created a video to address this problem or do you know how to fix it?
I made a MS account just for the sake of less stress. Unfortunately I didn’t know what “S mode “ was about at the time of purchase. Fortunately for me this is a brand new HP laptop from Wallyworld. It being only Three days old it’s going back . What a damm headache 😂
S Mode must be saved deeper than any of us think. I can give long details (one of those endless battles) but the short: Our charity was given an acer Home S mode. I needed to get it to Pro. (BTW Bios does not allow turning off safe boot.) Booted from rescue stick, in Cmd, Diskpart, ran Clean, so disk has not partitions or anything. Booted from my Win Pro install (we have open license) and installed clean. Came up in Win Pro S Mode. ?! And no way out. Used all of your tricks and many others. FYI, regedit, load hive, the entry you said change from 1 to 0? It was already 0, but still in S mode! Booted from rescue stick with Disk Genius, deleted all partitions and ran a security wipe overwriting entire disk. Then clean Pro install again, and FINALLY Win Pro no S mode.
Woohoo! Gone! Used little on this dual boot laptop but, need that freedom occasionally to do as I wish.
I think the step missed earlier was to be sure to be on C drive and not the X drive.
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my key was set to 0 by default and the verifiedandreputable key was set to 2, windows 11 23h2 hp model 15-ef2033dx. STILL IN S MODE. also reloading os has [specialize] headers in the autounattended.xml setup script that prevents a plain install of windows from "sucessfuly installing"
I have a problem guys and I’d like to see if there’s a solution. So basically, I had a problem after I updated my computer a while back and recently fixed it. The problem was that all my USB ports shut down and only one was working which was my mouse. So I had no internet (internet router connected to my computers USB port), and my keyboard. I fixed it by resetting my PC and signing into my computer and then it worked. But now I have the same problem again. How to fix?
Thank you so so much❤ I do have a Microsoft account, but it gets stuck at the disabling. But this worked perfectly
Thank you so much for the help brother it was hard to get rid of for no reason really appreciate the help
I got a really cheap HP, and I am still stuck in s mode after changing the value to 0 and doing your steps.
I owe you $10.00 for this. Thank you!
I can’t just “turn off S mode” the Get button just won’t work, it says Try Again, and “Something happened and we couldn’t start the upgrade” any ideas??? I’ve tried everything
No Secure Boot option in your BIOS ? In some BIOS model, you have to set an administrator password to see it. When you have well set the secure boot option, you can set again an admin pwd and leave the typing area empty to disable it. Then, save your BIOS modifications. Have a great deployment.
Thanks brother for this helpful info!
Thank you for your support and help
This video was the one that worked nice job!
my HP PC win 11 is in S mode, I followed ur instruction but had to skip a step u don't mentioned, then found setting was at 0 anyway. I re entered 0 and finished step, but still have S mode.
I've found you have to load an older version of Windows on systems now. I mentioned that in the video.
I did reg key and then disable boot then it worked then I re enabled. Thanks for the video man! Well earned like here!
Fuck S mode. Microsoft just went down in my head.
Makes me love Linux all the more
THIS WORKED! Thank you so much.
Can you make an video about how to enable Windows Hello Fingerprint in Windows 10 ? I change my laptop motherboard because it broke an now i can't use my fingerprint to unlock my laptop .
it's time somebody comes up with an alternative to Windows. It might not be that fancy, but a change is desperately needed.
Worked the first time
Thanks☺️☺️
many thanks , i changed the secure boot and it works
3 option worked thank you!!!!🙏❤️💯
Dude thanks so much, totally solved the problem