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From Windows 8, Microsoft tried to convince users to Instead of using a Microsoft account instead of a local account. The following article describes if this is necessary, the return to a local account is feasible and whatever you have to know.

The meaning and purpose of the Microsoft account

The Microsoft account (previously Windows Live ID) is absolutely necessary for services such as Outlook.com, OneDrive, Skype, Bing, Windows Phone, Xbox Live or Microsoft’s App Store and is becoming Windows 8 also as access for the system used (optional). Microsoft put a «What is Microsoft Account» information page on the net. There is also a FAQ for the Microsoft account.

With the Microsoft account can in relation to the aforementioned Services and apps that manage and synchronize the data and settings between the devices become.

Do you always have to be online to register with a Microsoft account?

Anyone who uses the Microsoft account for access will surely arrive at the question at some point if an internet connection must be available for this. Noon! If you use a Microsoft account for access and password of the account for this, you need to have an active internet connection to check the access data. However, it is possible to bypass the problem using a PIN instead of the password, as input of the PIN TIP instead of the access password for the Windows account.

Even without an Internet connection, you can access the laptop with a Microsoft Knoto, for example if you are offline when traveling. Of course, you have to do without the other functions associated with it.

Climbing introduction as access

Windows 8.x

With Windows 8.0, a local user account may be created in the setting.

With Windows 8.1, a Microsoft account must be created for the first user. There is no longer a hypertext connection to set up a local account. After selecting the expressed settings, the «Internet connection» of the message is displayed. So the message arrives «We set up your account …» and the page is displayed on which only the e -mail address and password are entered.

There are But the opportunity to create a local account. Instead of an e -mail address on the account device, enter only «absurdity». So the message «Your email address or password is wrong. If you don’t remember your password anymore, Go away without a Microsoft account«.

Click that Blue link And the selection appears: [Noch einmal versuchen] AND [Lokales Konto erstellen]. Click [Lokales Konto erstellen]. So you can create a local account.

Windows 10

Even below Windows 10 is not necessarily a Microsoft account how access. During the installation, you can choose if you want to access with a Microsoft account or you would prefer to record «locally» as it was common to Windows 7. To do this, you have to «skip this step».

Then you can one Local account invest.

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If a Microsoft account is already used, It can have passed to a local account at any time.

For Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 there are different ways, which we have described in detail in the Windows 8.0 suggestions: from the Microsoft account to a local account and the registration in Windows 8.1 with a local instead of the Microsoft account.

There is a new way for Windows 10. To do this, he passes under Settings in the area Content.

There, the currently active user account is displayed in «your account» with your e -mail address (Microsoft account). Click «Instead, register with a local account«, A window opens with»Change in a local account«Where now you have to insert the current registration password. After» Next «, normally recorded in a local account with a new username and password. Subsequently, a restart is required.

Add other users with the local account

At first glance, Microsoft has no intention of using a local account for other user accounts. With a trick that we describe in the tip of local users in Windows 10, however But use a local account.

The account name cannot be changed to a Microsoft account

If you use a Microsoft account for access, it cannot be changed to Windows. Instead, you have to change the username in your online Microsoft account.

App and historic houses problems

The creeping introduction of the Microsoft account as a standard shows the best in Windows 10. Many compulsory apps a Microsoft account, otherwise they cannot be started or nerves every time. In Windows 10 there are functions such as calendar and and -mail, but also integrated functions such as Cortana, which do not work without a Microsoft account.

The Microsoft store for the apps also wants to go to Windows 10 Microsoft account if you don’t just want to download free apps. If you click on the head symbol next to the search at the top right, you can only enter the access data of the Microsoft account for the archive.

When asked about Windows’s password, they don’t insert it. Click «Register only with this app instead». This allows you to load apps from the shop with a local account.

Network release?

A problem arises for network sharing if they are connected to certain accounts. Anyone who releases a folder for the «Pope» user with the «secret» password on the computer a must – without a central account management through a domain – also creates the «dad» user with the same password on computer B as a user. Now you use it Microsoft account as login, the username and the modification of the password. If you perform a question when you access the network storage position, you can also use it Alternative access data Register there and save them. So, despite the Microsoft account, you also get the approval of the network.

Conclusion

THE Microsoft account It is in principle Nothing more than an Apple ID or the Google account and also summarizes all the services and settings of the operating system between the devices. Presumably to preserve the compatibility of older applications and access rights for network versions, Microsoft has still made it possible for local accounts. It is therefore hoped that Microsoft will not rationalize this «function» with an update in the future or that this allows it only in domains on the net.

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