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Windows 11 | Windows 10 News on these iconic operating systems. => Windows 10 Help | How To & Fixes | Tips & Tricks => Topic started by: fdhealy4 on April 18, 2021, 12:56:03 AM
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I newly installed Windows 10 Home on my granddaughter's computer. I couldn't find a way to enable a "local account" during the setup screens so I hit the skip I'll do it later button. About every 3 days now when she wakes the computer the setup screen for signing into your Microsoft account appears. She doesn't have an email and I do not want her info going to MS. How can I get these sign in screens to not display and stick with a local account?
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Hi Dale,
Have a look here (http://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/switch-your-windows-10-device-to-a-local-account-eb7e78a9-88ee-9bc3-8f06-831b56e339fd)
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Clarification
Currently I do have a local account. The issue is that every 3 days or so I get the setup screen blue box, it fills about 1/2 of the screen, trying to get me to sign up with a MS account. They are the same setup screens you see when you do the new install of the OS. Since the user of that computer is 7 she doesn't need to deal with this. I take care of the issue but I don't want to deal with it every 3 days either. I did see a post on the web that said to go ahead and sign up for the MS account, reboot, then go into the settings and switch back to a local account. Does that sound reasonable?
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YES, that sounds very reasonable. I have done that very thing in the past for clients. I guess I miss interpreted your first comment...Sorry