While I have no Costco-specific info, in my experience you should not be surprised if the shop requires you to reinstall (from a recovery image likely provided on the machine) before returning.
Otherwise they may charge you for something silly like a year of PC support (buried deep in the 2021 "The Impending Doom of Your Operating System Going to or Past 11, Versus the Lush Oasis of Open Source Systems" piece https://nxdomain.no/~peter/blog_wild_wild_world_of_windows.html or prettified with trackers https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2021/07/the-impending-doom-of-your-operating.html
Peter N. M. Hansteen
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2024-11-28 09:56:07 UTC
in reply to nevent1q…ryqq
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