Windows 10: Will a local account get deleted along with a clean install of windows?

If I deleted all partitions on Windows 11/10 and re-installed the OS completely, will my local account get deleted as well? Is the only way to retain any account info/settings is through having a Microsoft account? Additionally, I was just curious if all it takes to reset the pin password on your account if you're locked out of your account is to login to your Microsoft account and you'll be able to easily do so?

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Local account installation question

I'm fairly certain that Skip this step was available in 10.0.130 - the workaround in Step 20 (back button) is no longer required.

The currently known, as of 10.0.130, ways to create a Local account sign-in are

• Skip this step at the MS account creation phase
• No Internet connection during the install
• static IP (post# 2 by Fragment) - New (to me anyway)

 

Local vs Network user accounts

I just did a VM install, just to verify that I don't speak total crap.

Steps I took:

1. Installed Windows 10 Pro x64 Build 15063.0
2. Entered the License Key
3. Created a local account
4. Went to accounts and added my Microsoft account
5. Let Windows use this account for all apps
6. Checked status on Microsoft account web page.
7. Verified that the VM shows up there
8. deleted my VM locally
9. created a new VM installation without entering the License Key (on same VM but totally new Virtual disk)
10. re-did steps 3-7
11. verified that my VM is activated.

And indeed it is activated and I login to my VM using local account which is linked to my MS account.

Should I create a Video of this or do you trust my word on it? Or better yet test it yourself if you have a valid license key you can waste on a VM.

 

Clean Install, no option to create Local Account

Hello mate, *Smile

This is an issue for the Windows Home edition.

However, when you get to step 24 in the tutorial below while doing a clean install, you can enter a bogus phone number to then have the "Offline account" link option to create a local account.

Clean Install Windows 10