"sign in with a local account instead" is missing

1 Are you currently logged in to an MSAccount-linked user account then?
How to Tell if Local Account or Microsoft Account - TenForumsTutorials

2 Please confirm that you are not logged in to the normally-disabled Built-in Admin. If you were then your UserName would be "Administrator" by default. You can check your UserName by running
- this command in a Cmd prompt window

Code:

Echo %UserName%

or
- this command in a PowerShell window

Code:

$env:UserName

and you can check that you have not renamed the Built-in Admin account by checking that "Administrator" is still listed in the response to the command

Code:

net user

in either a Cmd or a PowerShell window.


All the best,
Denis

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Apparently this is a relatively common issue... at least according to the numbers here,
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/...0299bb2?page=1
where there are a couple of screenshots including the 'Your info' screen with this missing.

There is no resolution there, just the suggestion 'The user account is corrupted'.

"Manage my Microsoft Account" takes you (after logging in on line) to



- which might appear to be of interest, but the option to remove a device seems to be for devices you no longer use.

ratparty9701 said:

I'll try factory resetting it

That's going too far.

If you're not going to conduct the tests I suggested then your best bet is simply to create a new, local, password-protected user account then raise it to be an Admin account if you want and start using that user account instead.
- You can worry about copying across files from your old account when you are happy that the new account is working correctly.
- There is absolutely no rush to remove the old account.
- Personally, I also create two spare local, password-protected Admin user accounts so I can feel well-protected against user account corruption.
- Links to the relevant tutorials are given in my ditty - Create two spare local, password-protected Admin accounts [post #2] - TenForums


All the best,
Denis