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Kinda funny, just yesterday, my kid found a solution for the issues he was having with fallout 4, and it was switching to use a local account

fallout 4 , was opening in window mode only, and no matter what we did it refused to read the setting to open full screen, also the game was not saving anything

he kept searching online, until he found someone suggesting to use a local account, and bingo, it fixed everything

i am not sure exactly why , but it seem it has to do with your home directory going through onedrive if you use an ms account , and this messed up the game ability to read settings and save progress



Did you guys use the old alt+enter trick too? It took me an embarrassing amount of time to learn that one and now I'm out to spread the word.

(Yes, in the past I'd restart games to switch modes. No, I did not know better.)


Yeah have run into this too with games.

Always remember those keyboard shortcuts! They will save you when weird stuff happens.

With regards to OneDrive - just remove it and things work better. On older Win10 releases you have to manually remove it (shell extension and everything) but Win11 and latest Win10 you can just uninstall it from what I have seen.


what is the alt+enter trick? i dont think we came across it


It is the shortcut for switching between windowed and full screen mode for most games.


A decent amount of games let you toggle fullscreen by pressing Ctrl+Alt+Enter


Do you need to use ctr? I've found alt & enter sufficient.




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