Switch to Local Account in Windows 10  

Brink said:

Do you see this below instead?

No, this:

I'd like to get rid of the link between the account and the ***@hotmail.com email

The email account appears in the "email & accounts" tab too.


I've been unable to find how to unlink it

Brink said:

Do you have another local administrator account on the computer?

Yes I do

If you do, sign out of the built-in Administrator account, sign in to the other account, and you can use option 2 below to reset the built-in Administrator to default.
Delete User Profile in Windows 10

You mean delete built-in "administrator" account profile, no side effects ?

Brink said:

If will cause a new profile and profile folder to be created for the built-in "Administrator" that should restore it back to being a local account instead of a Microsoft account.

Thanks, I'm going to check this!

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It did'nt worked

When logging using the administrator account I'm getting the folloging prompt asking me to disconnect and connect back in:


Clicking "disconnect" logs me off
Clicking "close" (fermer) start the session using a temporary profile!

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Oh, I skipped the remaining of the instructions,
please stay tuned

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Brink said:

you can use option 2 below to reset the built-in Administrator to default.

I've used option #1 and it worked fine!
Thanks a lot for your help.

Hey! Really sorry to bother you guys, but I thought maybe you could help me out here...

I'm currently upgrading my PC and in order to keep my Windows 10 licence I logged into my Microsoft account.
I didn't really think much about it before doing so since I had already logged in using my Microsoft account before and have been able to revert it to a local account without much of a problem if remember correctly.

But now I'm in the situation that I want to revert back but can't...
I'm really hesitant to create a new local account and move over to that account since that would mean quite a bit of messing with the folder structure of my existing Files...

Brink said:

Hello @DerMBen, and welcome to TenForums.

What is preventing you from switching to a local account from a Microsoft account?

Are you getting any error messages?

I'm not getting any error messages, the option simply isn't there...

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Billing info, child protection, subscriptions,
security settings and more

Manage my Microsoft-Account



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Now I've foolishly switched my account from administraitor to regular user without checking if I had another administrator account to switch it back, so now I fear I'll probably have no other option than to do a clean install of windows and then transfer my old data...