there have been people i know why bypass the microsoft acct setup on a new computer because they dont' want to be shackled by it.
if i create a local account and switch to it am i effectively free of the miscrosoft acct in the same way that my friends bypass it totally
thx
Sometimes the Forgotten Password Wizard will not open from the link in Control Panel/User Accounts/Create a Password Reset Disk or through Windows Search. Sometimes it will open in the background and is visible using Win+Tab. But you cannot bring it to the desktop. If this happens, close it with...
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How does one connect the users AD (or local) user profile to the user after joining the PC to Azure.
The user (even when using exactly the same user name) does get a completely blank profile.
- Some people actually panic when we try this. "Everything is gone :-(" as one manager said today...
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After many attempts I still can't remove the start-up password from my laptop. Its a password with complex requirements (like AAAaaa1234@$%^#) that needs to be changed every 2 months. That's way too much trouble just for editing bird pictures on this old machine and annoying to use for...
Hello all, I'm trying to stream my media FROM Windows 10 PC TO my Android 11 phone using VLC. My files are located on my 2nd D drive which I can't see them in my phone. I'm trying to make it work in 2 ways. FIRSTLY, by enabling the ''Media Stream Options'' in which I can only stream shared media...
So I'm the poor schmuck that gives a crap about backups. I have scripts that are supposed to run every night, but due to IT corporate domain nonsense they make me change my password. The scripts are run from a local admin account (non-domain) but every time I change my network password, all...
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I'm leaving my job of six years in about 10 days and I need some guidance. We use Windows 8.1 and there was no special account attached to it when I was hired. I signed in to my personal account and have been using it here at work for the past five years. It dawned on me after I gave notice that...
I woke my computer from sleep this morning and it said it now wanted me to login using my Microsoft account. I had set it to use my local account sans password. I noticed that a couple of updates had been installed (must have been automatic... don't remember downloading them). So what the...
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if I installed Windows 10 (and Windows 8.1 too, as dual boot), both with local account, no Microsoft account. I have only Microsoft account created on Microsoft site.
I would only install Microsoft application from Microsoft Store according to this description (with "Sign in to just this...
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I have a Dell M4800 on which I have Bitlocker enabled with TPM on the system disk. Everything worked fine, I could unlock the encrypted drive with the pin code I had set and log in with administrator privileges to my domain account. I decided for some time ago to remove the computer from...
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An elderly neighboor has a HP laptop that was managed mostly by her deceased husband. It has one Local account on it and she /we have the password
full access to all their documents etc.
She says the unit has become very slow, not sure why an i am starting to help her clean it up, backup all...
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microsoft always asks me to sign into my microsoft account and stop using a local account to sign in,
i've been thinking about doing that a long time ago but,
i have 2 desktops,
one that i use for gaming and mining,
and then other one i use just to surf the internet watch movies,
the...
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I've been trying to Set Up a Work or Education Account in Windows 10, but I've been getting an error saying that I need to be connected to the Internet (but I am).
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How can I resolve this issue?
I've tried some of the possible solutions that I found online - such as changing to...
I think its the very reason I choose to sign in with a local account instead - that I will not face any problem offline.
Guess what? It says to sign in with my last password used on my PC, because I am offline. The last password is ofcourse of my local account, as thats what I use, but when I...
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My 'Administrator' Rant!
Permissions required for EVERYTHING, again, coincidentally, after this mornings update!! How many times do I (we) have to go through this? Today, even to change the name of a shortcut!!
I live alone, am the only person to...
So i have been using windows 8.1 and only had one local account in this computer. I come back to find that someone has associated their cloud account to this computer and now my account is missing and now i have their accounts instead and windows 10.
My question is, can i somehow retrieve my...
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I have a new Acer Aspire E5-574 laptop that cam with Windows 10 pre-installed.
I now have a single admin user account using MS Live.
I now wish to change this account to a local account but I find that this is impossible. I have found on the internet simple instructions as how this can be...
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Here's the setup on my home network:
Win10 Machine A - Win 10 Pro, Automatically logs on Using a Local Account (In Netplwiz I Unchecked that users need to enter a User Name/PW and have an admin account automatically logging in).
Win10 Machine B - Win 10 Pro, Normal Logon process with a...
I have a relatively new laptop and am setting it up. I created one local administration account and one local standard account for my one of my Laptops. However, when i log in to my local standard account I am prompted by UAC asking if windows command processor can make changes to my PC. I have...