It's no secret that Microsoft would prefer you not to use local accounts on Windows. While you'd usually log into Windows with a Microsoft account, people have found ways to use a local account ...

Last month, Microsoft quietly removed the official instructions for switching to a local account on Windows 11 devices. The company is pushing hard to get its users to sign into its Windows machines ...

Why it matters: New Windows installations will be more secure thanks to a recently implemented policy against recurring login attempts. Microsoft is waging war against brute force attacks, on all ...

Microsoft is moving to a world where a Windows user will be required to have a Microsoft account, and now the company has taken another step in that direction. A new report from Tom's Hardware has ...

If you've set up a Windows PC recently, you'll know that the process includes logging into or creating a Microsoft account. Where once you could push on with just a local profile created, Microsoft is ...

I've created about 50 local user accounts on a Windows 2012R2 File Server, and I'd like to copy those accounts to a new 2022 server. on the old server, a lot of permissions are driven by local users ...

Did you know that it’s entirely possible to use Windows 11 with a local-only account, the way it worked way back when computers still used floppy drives? You’d be forgiven for not knowing, because it ...