Windows 10: I can only login as local Admin on Windows 11 - cannot switch accounts or log in as a new user.

I have added work accounts in Settings-Accounts-Access Work or School, but these users do not show in Login Screen.

:)

 

My admin account switched to a user account!

The first of the many diagrams in this thread show that the link Sign in with a local account instead is displayed for the account that is currently logged on and so the reversion procedure might work for this account. For normal circumstances, that would initiate the conversion back to a local account for the user account currently logged in - see my 23rd & 26th September 2016 posts in revert to local account from one converted to MSAccount. I have no way of knowing how Windows will react to an attempt to use this procedure for the Built-In Admin account and I do not know if that link Sign in with a local account instead will be displayed or not.

I think I side-stepped this issue by suggesting that that

• An extra password-protected Admin level account is created, and
• The Built-In Admin is disabled, and
• The recovery attempt focuses on whichever existing user account remains active afterwards.

Personally, I would reinstall Windows 10 without even attempting this recovery. Installation takes very little effort once everything is backed up and the only necessary user interactions are right at the start & right at the end so it can be initiated before making a pot of tea. It took about 30, 60 & 90 minutes for each of my computers [the 30 minuter is 6 months old, the 60 minuter is 7 years old, 90 minuter is 12 years old].

Raner - I am trying to avoid sounding like I am nagging you into doing a clean install.

• Once you have recovered the existing user account you can attempt to re-enable & remove the MSAccount link from your Built-In Admin if that link appears in Settings, Accounts.
• Bree says it cannot be done and I think the same but I have never tried - I have never been able to get to Settings using the Built-In Admin because it cannot run any Windows 10 Apps so I do not know how it can be done [but the diagrams in Bree's link shows that those users got there].
• Even though I have the safety of having created two spare password-protected Admin accounts I would not want to know that my Built-In Admin was sitting in the background but unable to help me if my other accounts were corrupted.

Denis

 

Windows 11 22H2 update: cannot Switch User at login and cannot see Domain user, only local users

Hi,

I have two user accounts on my laptop; DOMAIN\first.last and localhost\name and could access both fine on Windows 11. After updating to 22H2 I can only see the locahost user and no longer have the Switch User function at the login page like I normally do. The local user doesn't have admin privileges and the domain admin doesn't allow concurrent logins, which means I can't 'switch user' from a current login but instead I have to log out of the localhost user in order to log into the Domain user. I also can't run any of the suggested RegEdit fixes because I don't have admin privileges.

Not sure how to proceed. I don't want to call IT Support 'cause I wasn't supposed to load Windows 11 on the work laptop LOL

Help please!

 

Local admin account not available on startup (unable to log in) (Windows 11)

One of our computers had a new Microsoft account logged into it. Ever since then, our local admin account does not show up on the login page on startup. It is still on the computer though, however, because I can still see it when I go to "remove users". How can I get back into this account? (Windows 11)

I have also made sure local user account is not disabled.