[Sarah Barracuda]

Not sure if you were using Windows 10 but they require a “Microsoft live account” which is basically whatever email address you used when you logged in for the very first time, has to be either outlook or hotmail..Im guessing what happened is that you tried activating the computer with an email account that did not match what you had on your laptop so it suspended you..you might have to reinstall windows, its annoying but its windows :(

[TomServo]

Not sure if you were using Windows 10 but they require a “Microsoft live account”

No they don't

[BuffaloJack]

> Not sure if you were using Windows 10 but they require a “Microsoft live account”

They want you to think you do, but you can skip the MS account and use whatever you used before. It should be under user accounts at the control pannel level.

[PAR35]

Not sure if you were using Windows 10 but they require a “Microsoft live account” which is basically whatever email address you used when you logged in for the very first time,

No, you could set yourself up as a local user - I've never had a Hotmail / Outlook account, so I couldn't have played their game even if I had wanted to (which I didn't). Of course, you have to look for third party software since they won't let you download what they now call 'apps' without an account.

Still quite happy that I never let the Windows 10 virus infect this computer. I do play with it some on an old laptop.