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    So, I recently installed Windows 11 Pro on a new computer. It's been a while since I installed Windows and just followed the recommended prompts. So, my computer was linked to my Microsoft account which I didn't really want.When I saw that OneDrive was by default backing up my Documents folder, I detached OneDrive from my computer and then uninstalled OneDrive. At least, I'm pretty sure that's what I did it was a week ago.I set up my computer so that I could RDP into it. But I didn't want to use my Microsoft account & password to do so. So, I created a "local account" called "Dani

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