Computer Help and Support

... on my PC, to help me unlock the bootloader and root a cheap Android phone that I bought a few months ago as a spare smartphone.

I had to make changes in the registry before I was allowed to install the USB driver that would allow me to proceed.

It turned out to be a multi-day project for me to get past that initial hurdle, which was supposedly the easy part according to online instructions that I read about rooting an Android phone! Yet the later steps were the easiest for me, thanks to Windows 10 being such a pain about it.

Edit: By the way, Microsoft obviously doesn't want anyone using torrent software either! At least that's pretty easy to get around, with permissions granted through Defender. But you're right that those issues never came up in the past!