As Andre mentioned, you must disconnect from an Internet capable connection in order to create a local account. I know, this makes no sense whatsoever.
However, once you have created your local account, you can immediately reconnect to the network.
Thank you. I will remember that if I install Windows 8.1 again. I went ahead and signed in, created a local account, rebooted, logged in under the local account and removed the MS account.
You can also go ahead and create a Microsoft account and then convert it to a local account after you sign in, that's what I did.
It'll keep asking you to convert it back to a Microsoft account when you open new metro apps, but at the bottom you can click to sign into each app individually.
just keep typing in incorrect details for the MS account, and the local account option will show up. You can see it in my youtube video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2_O0nJ3Rqw
just keep typing in incorrect details for the MS account, and the local account option will show up. You can see it in my youtube video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2_O0nJ3Rqw
- Marked as answer by Leo HuangMicrosoft contingent staff, Moderator Thursday, July 11, 2013 9:04 AM
Windows 8 is designed to use your live account to manage the apps and services like skydrive and maps etc
You guys really need to change this tactic because the bulk of your users do not want to be forced to submit their email info and use that as their login.
Email logins are prone to getting hacked by phishing attacks and I can only imagine the agony this can create when someone hacks your email and logs into another Win8 PC to gain access to all of the user's apps and services.
This should be an optional setting right off the bat.
In [t]he option "I don't have a MS account" there is an option to logon via local account. It is very hidden
This is true. I missed it the first time I installed Pro Preview, but looked even harder when installing Enterprise Preview and found it.
It seems those who think it's a good idea to ship your username and password to Microsoft haven't thought too hard about it. I guess that's the way of the future.
You can also go ahead and create a Microsoft account and then convert it to a local account after you sign in, that's what I did.
It'll keep asking you to convert it back to a Microsoft account when you open new metro apps, but at the bottom you can click to sign into each app individ
- Proposed as answer by The Gander Friday, October 18, 2013 3:36 PM
Read each screen carefully. Don't just try to blaze through glassy-eyed without reading all the fine print and links provided.
I'm not being critical - it's easy to miss things you don't know to look for. But now you know to look for them.
How about this: Take the time to capture each and every screen you see during setup and post them here. We'll point out the links you should take. Then you can capture those screens and we can point out the additional things you should do.
> You can also go ahead and create a Microsoft account and
> then convert it to a local account after you sign in, that's what I did.
Good luck with getting that information purged from Microsoft systems. In the US, there is no right to privacy and no right to be forgotten.
> There is no way to "convert" a Microsoft account to
> a Local account on Windows 8.1. You can do this on
> on Windows 8, which has the "Switch to a Local
> Account" option, but Winodws 8.1 does not have
> it, and that is by design. Microsoft wants you to
> sign in to its account every time you log into Windows.
Man I hope the FTC opens an investigation on Microsoft business practices. If this were examined in detail, I bet this would violate antitrust due to the illegal tying of services. (And you can't opt-out of the ad programs that are piled onto these "features" - you can only "personalize" the ads).
- Edited by Jeffrey Walton Friday, October 18, 2013 9:25 AM
> There is an easy way to switch to a local account
> in Windows 8.1 Pro RTM. Go to the Charms Bar
> and select Settings.
Its already game over. Anonymity has been lost for those who care about those sort of things.
Enter Charm (Windows Key+C) then click the "Change PC settings" at the bottom.
Click "Accounts" then you should have an option that tells you to "sign out" and switch to a local account.
You really have to shake your head when you look at the way Microsoft is using dimmed text and small fonts to try to get everyone to overlook that it's possible to set up a LOCAL ACCOUNT and avoid their predatory cloud integration.
I guess most everyone entrusts Microsoft to have a permanent "foot in the door" anyway (e.g., via Windows Update), so shipping their administrative account info to them doesn't really seem such a stretch. And of course, pure consumers who just use their computing hardware as playthings don't really care much about privacy anyway. Near as I can tell, they don't care about much of anything.
Trust mother Microsoft. We'll be good to you.
I admit I really didn't see the modern era of "dumbed down computing" arriving quite so rapidly. I blame Apple Computer for starting the trend that handily averts a "Star Trek future" in which everyone is highly educated on technology. Now we have a nation (world?) of people who are constantly distracted - on purpose.
And now Microsoft is feverishly trying to follow Apple.
"Dumb and dumber". Sigh.
You really have to shake your head when you look at the way Microsoft is using dimmed text and small fonts to try to get everyone to overlook that it's possible to set up a LOCAL ACCOUNT and avoid their predatory cloud integration.
I guess most everyone entrusts Microsoft to have a permanent "foot in the door" anyway (e.g., via Windows Update), so shipping their administrative account info to them doesn't really seem such a stretch. And of course, pure consumers who just use their computing hardware as playthings don't really care much about privacy anyway. Near as I can tell, they don't care about much of anything.
Trust mother Microsoft. We'll be good to you.
I admit I really didn't see the modern era of "dumbed down computing" arriving quite so rapidly. I blame Apple Computer for starting the trend that handily averts a "Star Trek future" in which everyone is highly educated on technology. Now we have a nation (world?) of people who are constantly distracted - on purpose.
And now Microsoft is feverishly trying to follow Apple.
"Dumb and dumber". Sigh.
Excuse me for a getting a little off-topic, but it seems there are some knowledgable folks here and I have a problem with a local account. On my Win 8 laptop I had 2 local accounts. As I went through the upgrade, when it asked me to log in with a Live account, I did because I didn't see the local option. I let the Live account get all setup, then logged out. Now at the login screen I could see the new Live account, and one of the pre-existing local accounts. However, the other local account is not there. The User directories still exist. Any ideas as to how to get that other local account visible again?
credential manager
- Edited by Frustrated David Thursday, October 24, 2013 5:35 PM
Please follow the below steps.
1. Go to PC settings.
2. Accounts -> Your account
3. Under your account id(Ex:prem@microsoft.com) there is a link called "Disconnect".
4. Clicking on that will take you to "Switch to a local account" form.
Hope this helps.
Thanks,
Premroop
- Proposed as answer by Premroopz Wednesday, November 06, 2013 3:22 AM
That is correct. Took me some time to find as Win8.1 has changed this compared to Win8.
"Disconnect" is now the new option.
Unfortunately Microsoft with Win8 and 8.1 is forcing users into a frustrating journey because they hide functionality that most people would prefer. Number two on the frustration list (and where 8.1 offers no or minimal improvement) is how previously simple things (Win7) now take multiple clicks, menu choices and/or typing. Shutdown is still drag mouse > Settings > Power > Shutdown
Finally: Windows in-place upgrade from 8.0 to 8.1 is not transparent to some older 3.rd party applications that run local licensing servers. In other words the license copy protection features sees the upgraded 8.1 machine as different to the same machine with Win 8.0, and thus requires new activation.
Perhaps they want us to prefer something else, because they perceive that's what it's going to take to fleece us at a whole new level. It seems that Microsoft has decided to get out of the operating system development business and into the business of building product delivery platforms.
Making products that people already want because of the merits of those products is just so last century.
No one can grasp a cloud.
There is an easy way to switch to a local account in Windows 8.1 Pro RTM. Go to the Charms Bar and select Settings. At the bottom right select Change PC Settings. Then on the left hand side select Accounts. Below your Live account select Disconnect. This will open a box to create a local account.
THANKS, this works was wondering the point of the disconnect option, makes sense now.
Again thanks alot!