britechguy
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I just received the first of two LG Gram 16s that will be the replacement laptops in our household. It is almost unearthly light, yet rigid. LG appears to have gotten this right as far as the magnesium skin stiffening this thing.
In any case, after going through what looked like OOBE (and this is a used unit) and having McAfee be part of that setup, even after removing it I was getting a message from Windows Security that I could not get to certain functions like Quick Scan because they were "restricted by your administrator." Well, since I'm my own administrator, that couldn't be the case, so off to do a clean reinstall I went.
I, of course, elected to "keep nothing" but got this dialog during setup, which I had never before encountered:
What's interesting is if you click on that Why am I seeing this? link, absolutely nothing on the Microsoft support page discusses a single thing that relates to this specific message in this dialog. There are about 5 other things that get discussed, but not this one.
I just continued on my merry way, as I want a fresh, Microsoft-supplied version of Windows 11 on this machine. I'll fetch LG's "service station" software back from them afterward, as I find this sort of thing handy to have for keeping all sorts of bits and pieces up to date.
If anyone's seen this before, and knows what it might mean in practical terms post-reinstall, please share. Otherwise, I'll report back if anything specific and actionable happens.
I certainly won't miss the built-in Alexa that comes with these machines!
In any case, after going through what looked like OOBE (and this is a used unit) and having McAfee be part of that setup, even after removing it I was getting a message from Windows Security that I could not get to certain functions like Quick Scan because they were "restricted by your administrator." Well, since I'm my own administrator, that couldn't be the case, so off to do a clean reinstall I went.
I, of course, elected to "keep nothing" but got this dialog during setup, which I had never before encountered:
What's interesting is if you click on that Why am I seeing this? link, absolutely nothing on the Microsoft support page discusses a single thing that relates to this specific message in this dialog. There are about 5 other things that get discussed, but not this one.
I just continued on my merry way, as I want a fresh, Microsoft-supplied version of Windows 11 on this machine. I'll fetch LG's "service station" software back from them afterward, as I find this sort of thing handy to have for keeping all sorts of bits and pieces up to date.
If anyone's seen this before, and knows what it might mean in practical terms post-reinstall, please share. Otherwise, I'll report back if anything specific and actionable happens.
I certainly won't miss the built-in Alexa that comes with these machines!
