Cannot enable Windows Insider features.

[yackar]

I've been wanting to try out insider builds for some time now, but my laptop's installation of Windows 10 wants to be weird about it. It has two options on the insider tab of the updates & security section, "Get Started" and "Link with a Microsoft Account". If I try the first option, it errors with the code 0x0, and if I try to link my Microsoft Account -something I shouldn't have to do since I'm using a non-local account- it closes settings completely with no error code or anything.
I tried to ask around on the Microaoft support forums, but every response I got over there was either completely useless, told me to redo things I was already doing over and over, or tried to get me to switch an option that doesn't even exist. They thought I could turn off automatic updates with a toggle in the settings, ffs!

 

[Colif]

Did you try on the tenforums insider section as they probably have a better chance of getting an answer there (compered to MS anyway, some one may answer here).

 

[yackar]

I might do tenforums if nobody can figure it out over here, I don't remember if I ever made an account there though. It's not that I wasn't getting answers on the MS forum, it's that everyone there was like speaking to IT bots that weren't well programmed. I gave them a third degree when they kept giving me useless questions, and one of them quoted my paragraph of burn just to inject some bold directing to turning off the windows local update sharing thing, which I disable anyway. I honestly think that the ms forum is chock full of chatbots after that.

 

[Rocky Bennett]

Hello, Well one thing is for sure and that PC does have to be linked to your Microsoft account. When you go into your settings and then update and security and then activation, what do you see. You should see something like "Windows is activated with a digital license linked to your Microsoft account." If you do not see that, then step one is to link that PC to your Microsoft account.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/3038430/windows/how-to-join-the-windows-10-insider-preview-program.html

 

[Rocky Bennett]

Here is a good step by step guide with pictures;

http://www.windowscentral.com/how-join-windows-insider-program

 

[Rocky Bennett]

Today we have a new insider build, so this is a good time to join the fun.

 

[Colif]

Today we have a new insider build, so this is a good time to join the fun.

I was hoping the next non insider build would be soon as I need new questions to answer... alas, its not till April now. Sigh.

glad someone around here knows about Insider versions

 

[yackar]

I don't need a step-by-step or anything, I've done insider builds before. Sorry it wasn't that simple to solve, I wish it was.
My windows license is linked to my account and everything already.
When I go to the Insider builds tab, it acts like my account isn't linked to windows, and has a Get Started button and a Link account area below it. if I choose Get Started, it gives me an error, claiming to be under an obviously invalid code of 0x0, and if I try the link account section, after it brings up the account selection, and I choose the one that the license is linked to, the whole window disappears without any trace of an error. I can't figure it out and I really want to get back in on the insider builds.

 

[Rocky Bennett]

What build are you on now? Are you on a retail build or are you running an older preview build?

 

[yackar]

Build 1607/Anniversary Update retail.

 

[Rocky Bennett]

When you go into settings> update and security> activation, it does say that windows is activated with a digital license linked to your Microsoft account? This is essential in order to be able to receive new insider builds.

 

[yackar]

Indeed it does.

 

[Rocky Bennett]

Well that is odd. I have run out of ideas for now, but I will put some thought into it. Also, I would definitely post over at the Ten Forum, there are a lot of insiders over there.

https://www.tenforums.com/