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Re: Problems with Microsoft account

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On 03/02/2025 21:44, Andy Burns wrote:
> Fokke Nauta wrote:
> 
>> My wife and me bought both a time ago a laptop with a W11 account. I 
>> configured my account and I found out that my laptop was not 
>> accessible from our local network. It was a Microsoft account. I 
>> created a new non Microsoft account and deleted the MS account. Now 
>> was my laptop accessible from the network.
>> But this was a long time ago. Now I want to access my wife's laptop 
>> from the laptop, and while she still haves her MS account, I can't 
>> access her.
>> As it is quite a job to create a new non MS account, and set all 
>> things and software from her current MS account over to her new 
>> account, is it perhaps possible to change her MS account to a non MS 
>> account?
> 
> 
> Before proceeding ... If the machine is bitlocker encrypted, either make 
> sure you have a backup of the recovery key which is NOT stored on the 
> computer, or remove the encryption ... if it came encrypted from the 
> factory, and it's Home, you might not be able to re-encrypt it (but I 
> think the O/P said it was Pro)

It's not encrypted. And it is Pro indeed.

> settings,
> Accounts,
> Your Info,
> under account Settings, there should be a button
> [sign in with a local account instead]

But that would create a new account. She doesn't want to loose her 
current account.
So this won't work.

Fokke

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  Re: Problems with Microsoft account Fokke Nauta <fnauta@solfon.nl> - 2025-02-03 19:38 +0100
    Re: Problems with Microsoft account Graham J <nobody@nowhere.co.uk> - 2025-02-03 18:52 +0000
  Re: Problems with Microsoft account Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2025-02-03 20:44 +0000
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