The Mrs. is getting a new laptop soon with Win 11 Home. We have not yet used a Win 11 device nor set one up. My internet reading tells me that many of the Windows forums report that "oobe\bypassnro" ...

This post will show you how to create a Local Administrator Account when you can’t sign in, using the UTILMAN.exe command line tool. Since you can’t sign in to Windows 11/10 and get to the desktop, ...

Sheila Harris set up a new Windows 10 PC, and realized afterwards that she set it up with a Microsoft account. That’s not what she wanted. Microsoft really wants the user account on your Windows 10 PC ...

There is a very simple tool ‘SecurityQuestionsView‘ that lets you view and save security questions and answers to all your local accounts. You just need to follow ...

Microsoft is removing known workarounds for local account creation in Windows 11 setup (OOBE), effectively making a Microsoft Account (MSA) mandatory for most users. The company cites proper ...

Windows Active Directory (AD) service accounts are prime cyber-attack targets due to their elevated privileges and automated/continuous access to important systems. Windows Administrators should ...

I've found a lot of conflicting information about this, so I'll ask here. In 2021, if you use a local account on Windows 10 Pro, can you use the Xbox app without using a Microsoft account to login to ...