Windows 10: Hide email / Ms user account at logon screen - Security !!

Hi there.

I stupidly signed on with an Ms user ID - so at login time it shows my user name (on the computer) + the email address (Ms account user name) on the login.

The old Local user just gave you your USER Name - and a panel to enter the password.

On the Ms user account login you have your name (say Fred) AND an email address say L: dogs@gmail.com before the panel for entering your password.

This to me is NOT a nice idea and BAD security especially if you say leave your computer LOCKED in a place where people pass through - I don't want to display my email address even on a LOCKED computer.

If I create / switch to a LOCAL account I can't use the same name (excluding the email) that I used for the Ms account.

Bit of a dogs dinner this one --.

Can I "undo" the Ms account and simply use the local account with the same name / settings etc.

Cheers
jimbo

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Password Screen

"I would like to inform you that it is by design you cannot hide your email address, so on the login screen it will show you’re email address."

I am very disappointed in this. Ever since I upgraded to W10 I've been bothered by the breach of privacy that the W10 logon screen forces upon me. I'm sure I'm not alone. Millions of people use laptops in public places every so often. I am constantly using
the computer in public places and I feel forced to tilt the screen to hide my personal information from passersby, or seatmates on the plane, train, or bus. I honestly can't think of a good reason for requiring this design. Furthermore, the only options available
to remove this information from public view require one to give up on essential security or endure inconvenience. Setting up for automatic logon means that my computer is accessible to anyone who touches it. Requiring Account and Password at each logon is
extremely time-consuming. What was wrong with the Windows 7 login screen? Forcing logon through a Local Account is also very inconvenient because it denies the user automatic integration with Microsoft Account.

Please change this! Please allow your consumers to protect their privacy while enjoying all the benefits of Microsoft Account integration.

I suggest the following approach:

Allow users to substitute a pseudonym for their Microsoft Account name, and have the pseudonym appear on the logon screen, instead.

 

User Startup logon screen How to hide a user when PC boots

I added at the end of my post HomeGroup$ as an "also". I am sorry for confusing the matter.

Actually all I want to do is not have a user or the HomeGroup$ or second user load at startup/boot. I only want my everyday user to startup/boot when my PC is turned on.

What this all boils down to is, I was actually looking for a way to use my wireless printer with my PC in a Home Network not a Wi-Fi. Example: Wireless USB mouse has a USB receiver, Wireless mouse and keyboard has a receiver, etc. Why not a wireless printer
with a USB receiver? I don't need Wi-Fi for my printer I only need for my PC an wireless printer to communicate.

 

Hai Jimbo.

I think you can go to Control Panel>User Accounts>Change PC account settings in PC Settings>convert to local account.

I'm on a local account, so for me at shows "convert to MS account", but that method should work both ways o_o'

Also using a local account u can still sign in to Modern apps on a per-app basis.

 

Converting from a MS account to a local account worked for me a few months ago in W8.1 Pro, so I'm assuming it will on W10 as well. Doing it that way saved all my settings, which creating a new local didn't didn't.

 

Ya I've done that before on Windows 8 when I realized that logging in via hotmail account was super dum, tho I also haven't tested it on Windows 10, because **** MS accounts *Smile

 

Just tested that and it works, might as well changed the password as well:

 

I don't believe that with network connection you could install W10 without an MS account. I could be wrong...

The MS account is also used for activating W10 in the background, at least it did for me...

 

Hi there

If you try and switch to a Local account - it says Name already in use when you want to set your user ID.!!!!!!!!

But my main gripe is that you can't hide the wretched email address on the Ms account.

What an utterly stupid system -- what's the point of extra layers of security if your email address is plain for all and sundry to see on a locked computer !!.

Cheers
jimbo

 

By default, switching picked my first name only and did not complain about "name already in use"... At least on my Wmvare W10 it did not and I've just done it.

Maybe you cannot use your full name for the local account? Even if the MS account name does not show in the list of user accounts after the change. Could be hidden somewhere in the registry...

 

Hi there

Not sure how you did that -- the error only shows up when you hit the NEXT button.

I think I'll simply clone a user -- I can't see this whole Microsoft ID carrying any traction on Corporate networks (and I'm using the ENTERPRISE version).

Cheers
jimbo

 

Maybe you already have a local account by that name on your system? Try entering another UID...

Switching to local account on my system had no issues whatsoever...

 

On my W10, there are entries for the MS account in the registry, under:

Maybe this registry entry preventing to use your first name as a UID?