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Windoze 11 & local accounts
Micro$oft are doing away with this - they intend to force users to use a Microsoft account. I've found a way around this. There's a Registry hack you can use to pause updates for a given length of time - years, if necessary.
Con: this is risky because your system isn't updated. Pros: You're not forced to use a Microsoft account. You're not hassled by AI. Or ads. Your computer still (mostly) works the way you want it to. I don't want and, having read some horror stories, don't need updates - particularly not ones which, so I've read, break your system. Norton provides security anyway. I don't want anything to change, so I'm not letting it. I have a laptop running 8.1 - I got a new one because I got sick and tired of Chrome warning me it wasn't running 10 or later. That one has NEVER been updated - and works as well as it did on day one. With the right AV software most of these "critical" security updates are nothing of the damn kind. Now, of course, it can't be updated (though it still pleads that there are "important" updates - seems their definition of 'important' is a bit different from mine). I suspect that at some point they'll force people like me onto nonlocal accounts anyway. The moment they do, I will install Linux, and f*** Microsoft with a blunt, burning stick! |
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I dunno why people make a big deal of this.
I have an M$ account just for Windows and Office 365 I also fly against popular opinion and really like OneDrive find it really useful . The email is used for nothing else so any data it gathers the only difference is it has this email to go with it . Next to no difference between local and not |
Its silly to tell ppl how to get around stuff like that because if MS sees it,they could try to block it.....
Its best to keep stuff private (Off public sites where MS could see) |
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Why are MS turning into Apple? Whatever happened to choices. |
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You have the same choice Use Windows or don't use Windows I do not get it. Makes no sense to me |
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I don't password protect my local account. The machine is there for anyone to use. I prefer portable storage for this set up. I don't want mine or any other persons business on the machine.
My laptop has my windows account on. But that's because it's for me and only me. I understand a dummy account but that's more remembrance which I can do without. |
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you can go to local account when windows is setup the no big deal really need accounts for just about everything now
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The OCD in me being a neat freak does not want excessive accounts. It's clutter that I just don't need.
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How does an MS account work if the PC is not on the internet ?
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I don't have 365. I purchased office products from G2A or gamers outlet so onedrive doesn't really apply to me with it being a very small amount of storage for my account type.
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Chris Titus has a work around for the preview with the bypasses removed already
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