Windows 10: Cannot set up local user account

Hello


I am simply trying to set up a local user account on my computer for someone who does not have a microsoft account. Unfortunately, when the person tries to sign in, firstly their name does not appear as the other user - only the generic 'other user' account appears. Then the computer asks for an email address when the account was set up without one. We tried just putting in the user name and password but it did not recognise anything.


Any ideas?

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How to Change Microsoft user account to local user account

Hi Pchelpmenow,

At this situation, what I can suggest you is you have to convert the Microsoft user account to local user account.

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  Log to the system using her user account.
  
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  Go to settings and click on Accounts.
  
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  Click on Your email and accounts and click on
  Sign-in with a local account instead.
  
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  Enter the password, click on Next
  and follow the onscreen instruction to convert into local account.
  

Hope this helps. Let us know the result for further assistance.

Thank you.

 

Cannot switch to local account

Hi,

Thank you for your interest in using Windows 10.

Refer to these steps to convert Microsoft account into Local User account:

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  Click on Windows button, then click on
  Settings.
  
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  Click on Accounts then click on
  Your account.
  
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  Click on Sign in with a local account instead.
  
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  Following the Online instructions.
  

If the issue still persists, I would suggest you to create a new Local user account and check if that helps you.

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  Press “Windows key + X” and click on “Control Panel”.
  
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  Click on “User Accounts” and click on “Manage another Account”.
  
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  Click on “Add a new user in PC Settings”. Follow the on screen directions to complete the process.
  

Hope this information helps you. Please do let us know if you need further assistance.

 

Local Acct user and MS account user - sync them or merge them

If the local account is the one where you have most of your personal data, this is how I would do it:

• Sign in to your Microsoft account
  
• Copy all documents, pictures and other personal data from Microsoft account's user folders to corresponding folders in user Public (contents of MS account Documents folder to Public Documents folder and so on)
• Sign out from Microsoft account

Notice that above steps are only required if Microsoft account user folders contain data you want to keep. If its user folders are empty or do not contain anything worth saving, you can skip the above steps. Continue from below.

• Sign in to the local account
  
• Delete the Microsoft account (Option One in this tutorial)
• Switch your local account to a Microsoft account (tutorial)
• Copy the data backed up from old Microsoft account to Public folders to new Microsoft account in corresponding folders

That's it. Using the Public folders as temporary storage you will have none whatsoever file owner / permission issues later on.