Batu69 Posted July 11, 2015 Share Posted July 11, 2015 Secret Windows 10 retail loopy demo hidden in latest Insider PreviewMicrosoft has included a ‘retail demo’ experience that will be used to show off the Windows 10 OS in the retail environment. If you are running the Insider Preview of Windows 10, there is a hidden mode in the OS that you have apparently not touched. The feature is hidden inside the OS but has photos and a video of a screen saver that runs within the demo.However, there are a couple of disadvantages that may make this not worth though. First, if you enable the feature, all your personal content will be erased from your device. Second, if you want to uninstall the retail demo experience, you need a password that won’t be reported to the public, people may end up disabling the retail demos of devices at stores creating havoc for retailers.You can enable the demo feature by going to Settings -> Windows Update and Recovery -> Activation. Once there, then click the word ‘Windows’ five times, this will allow you to enter the retail demo code.Once you reach the screen, it will ask for a retail code, leave it blank and then click finish. Your system will reboot and you are good to go.For the major part, it’s Windows 10 that you know well with but there are some settings cooked in such as the homepage for Edge is set to Microsoft’s store webpage. The latest Build of Windows 10 and retail demo mode is not that different from each other. Some of the settings are preselected and it has also has a locked control panel.There is also an app that describes the benefits of Windows 10 and Office 365. The intention of this app is for you to see it play with a Windows 10 PC at a retail store, wherein you are shown a simple tutorial about what is new with the OS.In addition, there is also a new screen saver that Microsoft calls the ‘attract loop’, which will play when a Windows 10 PC on the retail demo is not in use. Once again, if you enable this, you would not be able to remove your device out of “retail mode”. As a word of caution, one can proceed at his or her own risk and be ready to lose all of the data and re-install the Windows all over again.Well, we will have to wait and watch if Microsoft would be adding more features to the app before the release of Windows 10. The instructions for accessing this mode does show a few more additions to the demo experience, but it looks like they have not been included in this build yet.Kindly remember, if you enable this, you won’t be able to get your machine back out of “retail mode”, so proceed at your own risk and be ready to lose all of your data and then have to re-install Windows.Source Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dMog Posted July 12, 2015 Share Posted July 12, 2015 yea now some boneheads will activate this feature and whine/blame that MS for allowing them to do this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spond123 Posted July 13, 2015 Share Posted July 13, 2015 "Once there, then click the word ‘Windows’ five times, this will allow you to enter the retail demo code... Once you reach the screen, it will ask for a retail code, leave it blank and then click finish. Your system will reboot and you are good to go."What if someone does this to another, out of sheer malice? All the personal content will be erased from the device. Leaked Retail Codes may be used at random, by any one. Correct me if I am wrong here, everyone, but shouldn't Microsoft have a security check like UAC prompt to prevent something like this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dMog Posted July 13, 2015 Share Posted July 13, 2015 "Once there, then click the word ‘Windows’ five times, this will allow you to enter the retail demo code... Once you reach the screen, it will ask for a retail code, leave it blank and then click finish. Your system will reboot and you are good to go."What if someone does this to another, out of sheer malice? All the personal content will be erased from the device. Leaked Retail Codes may be used at random, by any one. Correct me if I am wrong here, everyone, but shouldn't Microsoft have a security check like UAC prompt to prevent something like this?this just turns out to be one more reason why the end user should back up important stuff... the various nannys out there that people rely on to do everything foe them cannot, in reality actually do everything for them...if you do this stupid thing for your self...well it proves how smart you are...and if you have a friend that does it for you well it proves it was not a friend and if an enemy did it...well bottom line...you need to back your stuff up... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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