I have a sneaking suspicion that that ID can be deleted either with a specific service not running or with Windows powered off.
I have a sneaking suspicion that that ID can be deleted either with a specific service not running or with Windows powered off.
I won't be surprised if MS patches workarounds quickly and won't shed a word on the whole situation. Or worse, pulls the "this helps fighting evil hackers" reasoning.
it is generated from identifiers on device by a remote microsoft system where it is stored ..
But it is regenerated by reinstalling. So I suspect that its less fingerprint based and more of an in disk IDs thing. Which goes back to if you clear the right things while the system is not running you might be able to change it