Windows 10 Installs no longer have option for local account?

[mikeroq]

https://www.howto-connect.com/prefer-using-offline-or-local-account-when-setup-windows-10-home/

This indicates that Home edition now must be offline to make a local account during setup... yay.

Boy that article has some interesting english wording.

 

[HCHTech]

Just had a Win10 Home setup on a new computer (so...just the OOBE, not a fresh install and ran into this. Rebooting with the network cable disconnected before answering any questions allowed the local account to be created as before. Thanks, @GreyWolf !

 

[TechLady]

Just noticed this myself. It makes me really mad Microsoft decided to start trying to trick people into non-local accounts...and the option was already hard to see previously

 

[Markverhyden]

Probably written by a non-native speaker. No big deal - it's still easier to understand than some people who don't have that excuse.

Possibly written by a bird brain?



Seriously though. It looks to me like someone took a writeup in another language and passed it through some translator. They're consistent errors in sentence construction according to what little I know about grammar.

 

[Richard Sobe]

Hey all!

I just started seeing this this past week. I am using the same Windows 10 install media I always have. On fresh installs of Windows 10, there is no longer an option to opt for a local account! I even created older media for 1803 and 1709... same deal, no longer an option to create a local account. I am forced into attaching a Microsoft account during the install.

Is anyone else suddenly seeing this behavior?

I have experienced the same issue and figured out that if you do not let the computer connect to a network (no WiFi connection - no Ethernet connection) your only option will be a local account.

 

[fincoder]

I had this issue today for the first time. This was the initial startup of a HP laptop with Win 10 Home (factory image), I entered the WiFi password then no option for local account. Because it already had the WiFi password, I had to turn off my router for a few minutes while I turned the laptop off and started again, local account was then offered. The OS version turned was 1809.

I haven't had this issue with clean installs from my downloaded 1903 ISO.

 

[Sky-Knight]

I had a rare Win10 home come across my bench for a reload this evening and I discovered something...

If you forget to unplug the network cable, and you find yourself on that Microsoft Account screen, you can unplug the network, and click the back arrow on the top left of that same window. It'll make the pinwheel spin and you'll find yourself at the local account creation, toss in a name, leave the password blank and two clicks later you're on your way to the desktop as you plug the NIC back in and you didn't have to reboot!

 

[Larry Sabo]

Yeah, I was surprised to find that a month or so ago, although I it didn't work on other installs I've done since.

 

[Diggs]

From what I understand with 1903 you can still be connected and install with a local account. They have renamed the local account button to "Domain join instead" but the next screen allows a local account to set up. I have not tried it yet though. (...or did I misread and this is from Win10 Pro?)

 

[nlinecomputers]

Domain join is only for pro

 

[Diggs]

Domain join is only for pro

Understood. The author says this screen comes up in 1903 Home now. Let me see where I read that.....

@add - I read it on a confusing discussion on Reddit so never mind...... I think Home and Pro were confused along with the author.

 

[nlinecomputers]

This ZDnet article seems to confirm what you are saying but if so then it's a misleading link as home can't join a domain. https://www.zdnet.com/article/windows-10-users-fume-microsoft-wheres-our-local-account-option-gone/

 

[phaZed]

I put in a "bad email" and it failed and then gave me the option for a local account - Network plugged in the whole time. It is removed from the main user creation page though. ugh.

 

[Sky-Knight]

See the above screen grab, unplug the NIC, click the arrow in the top left, and it'll drop to a local account. But yeah, Home edition lacks the "join domain" button.

 

[Porthos]

https://www.zdnet.com/article/windows-10-users-fume-microsoft-wheres-our-local-account-option-gone/

 

[Sky-Knight]

@Porthos, you beat me to it... I smell yet another about face because the people have spoken here.

 

[Porthos]

I do not care what they do. I never connect during setup. So it does not affect me. Users never saw the local account link anyway so that really changes nothing.

 

[Sky-Knight]

@Porthos, I stopped doing that during initial setup because I had activation problems intermittently. But now that most of everything is swapped into real Win10 keys, that's less of an issue.

 

[River Valley Computer]

I do not care what they do. I never connect during setup. So it does not affect me. Users never saw the local account link anyway so that really changes nothing.

Fully concur.

 

[Diggs]

This ZDnet article

ExtremeTech is saying the same thing......

https://www.extremetech.com/computi...op-screwing-with-local-accounts-in-windows-10