Switching To A Local Account In Windows Before you can remove your Microsoft account from your Windows computer altogether, you must switch to a local account. You can do so by following these steps: ...

With the latest insider build for Windows 11, Microsoft is killing off a workaround that let you set up a local account instead of a Microsoft account.

One workaround used to set up Windows 11 with a local account has been blocked, but there are others - and two fresh ones have emerged this week.

A previously unknown trick lets you easily bypass using a Microsoft Account in Windows 11, just as Microsoft tries to make it harder to use local accounts.

But then you can input all your preferences for the install as you wish, before being whisked through to the fully functioning Windows 11— without a connected Microsoft account.