Every Windows computer has a Local Administrator account that is created at the time of Windows installation. As described above, the Administrator has full access to the Windows device as compared to ...

I've created about 50 local user accounts on a Windows 2012R2 File Server, and I'd like to copy those accounts to a new 2022 server. on the old server, a lot of permissions are driven by local users ...

A Local Account and Windows have always gone hand to hand. Many would like to have an account that is not connected to the internet at all. Plain old simple local account. However, starting with ...

Y ou may have seen some articles in the Windows news (and there's a lot of it these days) talking about Microsoft doing ...

Windows 11 has a new preview build It cracks down on workarounds to install the OS with a local account This is a continued campaign to force people to use a Microsoft account, and Microsoft argues it ...

If you've set up a Windows PC recently, you'll know that the process includes logging into or creating a Microsoft account. Where once you could push on with just a local profile created, Microsoft is ...

Microsoft has confirmed an issue on Windows 11 and Windows 10 caused by this month's Patch Tuesday updates. The issue, Microsoft explains, is associated with the local account. When a user installs ...

Microsoft is blocking another way to choose a local account in Windows 11. You'd force a local account by disconnecting from the network. The block is currently in place in the latest Windows 11 ...

In Windows XP Home Edition, there are two basic types of local user accounts (in addition to the guest account): administrators and limited users. With XP Pro, things get a bit more complicated. Users ...

I haven't yet figured out how to access our new Win11 machine from Linux or Mac, using Samba (v4.13.0 at the moment). I had it working just fine on the preceding Win10 computer which, to the best of ...