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3.) Start from scratch and clean install Windows 10. Windows 10 - Clean Install - Windows 10 Forums
Since 10 has been activated regardless of the source of the problem the last resort option is the only one that makes actual sense! When suggesting creating a new MS account to see if then the local account was available you missed the point entirely!
I could have easily suggested simply wiping the drive and starting over fresh to guaranty a working end result. The idea was to see if another solution was available first. But then apparently you didn't read the beginning of the next paragraph when suggesting going back to 7 and then upgrading to 10 all over again and once again repeat the same process all over again?Originally Posted by Night Hawk
.....Once signed into the new MS account the option for the local account should be available unless something else is trashed in the 10 especially if still running with the initial upgrade install. That's where things tend to be "Buggy"!
If creating the new MS account still fails to restore the option to sign in by local account that would indicate at least a repair install if not fresh clean might be needed to get things working as they should be.
Another upgrade once reverted back to the exact same 7 installation where the system admin had been turned into the local account to see the system admin become the local account once again in 10 with a second upgrade? The source of the problem according to you was what went on with the 7 installation there.
The repair install suggestion was simply to if the 10 installer could correct the system admin problem before the absolute solution nuke the present copy of 10 was turned to. That would be the last resort option I had already mentioned if the repair install wasn't able to succeed to leave the rest of the present 10 install intact.