Windows 10: Wallpaper sync on 2 laptops with local user accounts

Hi

I have an HP laptop which has always had a local User account.

I bought a new Dell laptop again using a local user account and have been using that for the last couple of months.

I just fired up the HP to have a look at something and then after leaving it in sleep mode for an hour, I've just come back to it and found the Wallpaper has changed to the one I have setup on the Dell.

Maybe a stupid question but if they are both on local accounts how does that happen? and how do I stop it because the last thing I want is for the new Dell to take on any of the settings on the HP.

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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.

 

How best Sync (local) User Accounts across devices NOT using MS Cloud?

Hi Folks - my question is absolutely NOT about file syncing - unless some of the tools you're suggesting also have local User Account ID syncing capability? Or am I missing some deep technical aspect here?

I need to make my Local Windows User Account ID identical (i.e. the same Account) across Windows laptops/etc., if that's possible. I.e. so that regardless of which laptop I log in on I'm the same User identity. (And yes I may also file sync my profile across too.) I need other things (NAS etc.) to see one User account Identity for me, not different ones from each laptop (because they're local user accounts).

I know I could do it by using an MS AD network domain User account, or by using a Microsoft User account.
But can it be done efficiently locally without setting up an MS AD domain server etc.?

 

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

Thank you. I will give it a try later today and post my results.

Got to it sooner than I thought.
Your method worked perfectly.

Thank you