Recent content by arosko

So if I reset Windows to the default state and then set it up again when it's out of range of an Internet connection, it will let me choose a local account from the beginning?

The worry is not that personal files will be irretrievably lost. I was still in the progress of migrating from my old machine to this new computer, and hadn't done any actual work on it yet, so nearly all files that are on this machine were copied verbatim from the other machine, and also remain...

I am aware that you're trying to help. I guess I'm a bit confused still as firstly it sounds like your steps still won't get me to where I want to be, and also some steps might conflict with each other (particularly 2 and 5). And in fact I've looked closer and things seem to be even more...

Actually, I changed my user account from a Microsoft account to a local account as soon as I could, which was after logging in the first time. From what I could see, Windows 11 doesn't allow creation of a local account when setting up the computer--that was the reason for this whole mess in the...

I just bought my first Windows 11 computer. I had the issue--that many others are having--that Windows chooses its name for the profile folder based on your email rather than a chosen username. I used this guide to change it, which agrees with all the other sources I have found that this is the...