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New Win10 installation with online accounts or not?
Hi all,
I’ll soon install my first Windows 10 PC and have therefore some questions related to the accounts.
As far as I know Microsoft want users to use the Microsoft online accounts - is it even possible to use offline accounts only? And what is the difference in between using online accounts and offline accounts?
Is there somewhere a comprehensive but not to exhaustive list that compares the two models.
- What are the actual benefits of one and the other?
- What special features are enabled when using the online accounts?
- What services/features/functions are not working with offline accounts?
- What services/features/functions do need a different way of configuration with offline accounts?
- …
Is there a way of using as Administrator account an offline account but as normal user account a MS online account?
Further - as I usually tend to split my system into two parts:
- Partition A containing the system (operating system and applications)
- Partition B containing all the user data and for some applications as well configuration/databases
That way I can backup these two parts separately (with different strategies) and can as well restore or reinstall the OS independent.
Would there be a problem doing so with the access to the data if I user account was an online account and therefore the permissions bound to that user ID in the system and later reinstall with the same user (or even with another)?
KR,
Maxwell