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  • W11 install, Microsoft Account, changing name!

    From David@21:1/5 to All on Thu Apr 18 19:50:01 2024
    Life is interesting!

    New DLL XPS 13 with Windows 11 Home.

    New PC set up doesn't allow you to use a local account at set up time.
    I dredged an old Microsoft Account out of the ether (just an email address
    that I didn't realise already had an account registered to it).

    Anyway, during the set up it asks for your name and phone number and stuff.

    I must have done something (or crap happened) because when I reset the
    password and logged in with the Microsoft Account it seemed to have picked
    up another name, which I think was an example name used during the set up process.

    All very weird.

    Anyway when logged in I tried to amend the account details.

    The account now shows my name within the Control Panel, but when I reboot
    and log in it still has this other name, and I don't seem to be able to
    get rid of it.

    I have set up a local account which I will use for the moment, but I am struggling getting my head around having a Microsoft Account which is tied
    to my email address (one of them) which now has a name completely
    different from the local account name associated with this Microsoft
    Account.

    I am wary of logging into a Microsoft Account from another PC in case it
    tried to then use it instead of my local account.

    I hate Windows 11 already!

    Gah.


    Dave R


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  • From Andy Burns@21:1/5 to David on Thu Apr 18 21:23:23 2024
    David wrote:

    New PC set up doesn't allow you to use a local account at set up time.

    It does, if you kick it in the right place!

    <https://www.tomshardware.com/how-to/install-windows-11-without-microsoft-account>

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  • From David@21:1/5 to Andy Burns on Fri Apr 19 10:32:18 2024
    On Thu, 18 Apr 2024 21:23:23 +0100, Andy Burns wrote:

    David wrote:

    New PC set up doesn't allow you to use a local account at set up time.

    It does, if you kick it in the right place!

    <https://www.tomshardware.com/how-to/install-windows-11-without-
    microsoft-account>

    Thanks.

    Read a few of those and with a pre-installed Dell copy the easiest way
    seemed to be to start out with a Microsoft account then create a local
    account.

    However my immediate problem is how to change the name on my Microsoft
    Account.

    I've followed what seemed to be the way using the Microsoft tools but I
    can see my details in User Accounts on the PCC, but these details are not offered at the login screen.

    Cheers



    Dave R



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  • From Jeff Gaines@21:1/5 to David on Fri Apr 19 11:15:10 2024
    On 19/04/2024 in message <l8evhiF8uurU3@mid.individual.net> David wrote:

    On Thu, 18 Apr 2024 21:23:23 +0100, Andy Burns wrote:

    David wrote:

    New PC set up doesn't allow you to use a local account at set up time.

    It does, if you kick it in the right place!

    <https://www.tomshardware.com/how-to/install-windows-11-without- >microsoft-account>

    Thanks.

    Read a few of those and with a pre-installed Dell copy the easiest way
    seemed to be to start out with a Microsoft account then create a local >account.

    However my immediate problem is how to change the name on my Microsoft >Account.

    I've followed what seemed to be the way using the Microsoft tools but I
    can see my details in User Accounts on the PCC, but these details are not >offered at the login screen.

    Can you do more if you sign on to your MSFT account in a browser?

    https://account.live.com/messagepage.aspx

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    Jeff Gaines Dorset UK
    All things being equal, fat people use more soap

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  • From David@21:1/5 to Jeff Gaines on Fri Apr 19 12:37:24 2024
    On Fri, 19 Apr 2024 11:15:10 +0000, Jeff Gaines wrote:

    On 19/04/2024 in message <l8evhiF8uurU3@mid.individual.net> David wrote:

    On Thu, 18 Apr 2024 21:23:23 +0100, Andy Burns wrote:

    David wrote:

    New PC set up doesn't allow you to use a local account at set up time.

    It does, if you kick it in the right place!

    <https://www.tomshardware.com/how-to/install-windows-11-without- >>microsoft-account>

    Thanks.

    Read a few of those and with a pre-installed Dell copy the easiest way >>seemed to be to start out with a Microsoft account then create a local >>account.

    However my immediate problem is how to change the name on my Microsoft >>Account.

    I've followed what seemed to be the way using the Microsoft tools but I
    can see my details in User Accounts on the PCC, but these details are
    not offered at the login screen.

    Can you do more if you sign on to your MSFT account in a browser?

    https://account.live.com/messagepage.aspx

    W11 takes me to a browser when I try and change things.
    I am very reluctant to do that from any other system as once Windows has a Microsoft Account active it seems to go full bore to convert everything to
    use that.

    I may be wrong, but I am very wary.

    Cheers



    Dave R


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