I had to save up a WHOLE YEAR for this laptop and want to use it for many years to come, so if I would benefit greatly from having something done that I am not smart enough to do myself, I would guess now is the time to do it. What I am saying here: If you think I would benefit from having this new laptop brought to the store with a different set of instructions now ('remove factory drivers', 'partition the harddrive', whatever), that's okay. This new laptop came with 'only' one partition, my old laptop here with Windows 7 has two (C: and D:) and I always kept my personal files on D: and all programs were installed on C: It was like that from the start, though, and admittedly all the stuff about synching and the like went straight over my head, I am not even sure what this means. Yes, that image in pcpunk's last post is indeed the menu I had found and where I pushed that button to deactivate the encryption! And apparently, the factory settings had this turned on, even when not connected to a Microsoft account.

Windows 10 broke my laptop