Windoze 11 & local accounts

Anonymouse · Yesterday, 11:33

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!

Jaymoss · Yesterday, 12:04

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

Dude111 · Yesterday, 12:27

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)

thenry · Yesterday, 13:29

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Originally Posted by Jaymoss

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

I find this a big deal. The local account type is very useful for me on an office machine free to be used by anybody. Tamper proof MalwareBytes and other measures avoid any misuse.

Why are MS turning into Apple? Whatever happened to choices.

Jaymoss · Yesterday, 13:33

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Originally Posted by thenry

I find this a big deal. The local account type is very useful for me on an office machine free to be used by anybody. Tamper proof MalwareBytes and other measures avoid any misuse.

Why are MS turning into Apple? Whatever happened to choices.

Tell me how a local account is any more secure than signing in with a dummy email on a PC others use? Windows Hello can secure apps and stop changes being made same as any Admin account . A local account with a password is no more secure imo than a M$ account just for that machine

You have the same choice Use Windows or don't use Windows I do not get it. Makes no sense to me

thenry · Yesterday, 13:49

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.

Dave42 · Yesterday, 13:52

you can go to local account when windows is setup the no big deal really need accounts for just about everything now

Jaymoss · Yesterday, 14:09

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Originally Posted by thenry

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.

So there is no difference then . Log in with email madeupforthismanchine@outlook.com jobs the same can set auto log in too

thenry · Yesterday, 14:14

The OCD in me being a neat freak does not want excessive accounts. It's clutter that I just don't need.

Carth · Yesterday, 14:23

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Originally Posted by Jaymoss

So there is no difference then . Log in with email madeupforthismanchine@outlook.com jobs the same can set auto log in too

Yep, I used a spoof email when found I 'had' to. No idea if stuff gets sent towards it, but it sure won't reach it as it doesn't exist.

**Paul** · Yesterday, 14:46

How does an MS account work if the PC is not on the internet ?

Jaymoss · Yesterday, 15:12

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Originally Posted by Paul

How does an MS account work if the PC is not on the internet ?

Well that is the flaw in M$s logic expecting everyone to have the net although the vast majority will. It also slows down the whole OOBE by searching for updates delaying first boot by sometimes a while but the account type makes no real difference

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Originally Posted by thenry

The OCD in me being a neat freak does not want excessive accounts. It's clutter that I just don't need.

ok that is relevant to you and fair enough but in practical terms it makes no odds. OneDrive has saved me loads of time too when I forget to back up files when clean installing or changing drives it just saves them and automatically recovers them to a new install Plus it also allows auto save and back up in office 365 which is also very helpful

thenry · Yesterday, 15:31

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.

Jaymoss · Yesterday, 17:14

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Originally Posted by thenry

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.

TBH I was just using general info as to why in reality having to sign in with an M$ is of little consequence

Jaymoss · Yesterday, 20:09

Chris Titus has a work around for the preview with the bypasses removed already