Windows 10: Sign in with a local account instead MISSING - try this.

After logging in with a Microsoft account you can no longer login with your local account and the option to "Sign in with a local account instead" is missing.


Try logging in with .\username


worked for me.

:)

 

"sign in with a local account instead" is missing

My intention is not to create a new user with administrator rights, but to change back the principal system "Administration" account (User) back to itself, a local login that is using a "Local Account." This used to be possible by using the now missing
option to "sign in with a local account instead". This is clearly a OS bug.

 

Windows 10 - Wrong Microsoft Account linked to local admin account - no Sign in with local account instead link available

Thanks for the response. What I suggest you do is to switch to a local account and then switch back to your Microsoft account.

Here's how:

• Sign in using the Microsoft account.
• Go to Settings.
• Click Accounts.
• Under Your email and accounts, click Sign in with a local account instead.
• Type the password of the Microsoft account and click Next.
• Under Switch to a local account, click Next.
• Click Sign out and finish.

Once you're done switching to a local account, you can now set your new Microsoft account to associate on your Windows 10 computer. Make sure to type in the correct email address you want to associate to your PC. Follow the steps provided above and click
Sign in with a Microsoft account instead to set up your new account.

Should you have further questions, let me know.

 

"Sign in with a local account instead."

I am still confused. You say, "you want to use the local user account instead of the Microsoft account."

If I am the only user of this computer, and I only have one user account (Microsoft-Administrator), where does this "local user account" come from?

Again, if I only have one logon/user account, does this mean that Windows is suggesting that I create a new "local" account?

And--why would Windows suggest this option? Is there some advantage to doing so?