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Absolute maddening Win 10 login problem
FYI an update, through some article I found that talks about ways to bypass login barriers on Win 10 it talked about renaming the ngc folder on the computer, which we did via command prompt that's using System for authentication. This got rid of the PIN prompting, leaving us with just passwords as the secondary field to match to an email address in the first field. In short, we got into the computer, and from there via Switch User was able to get in as the Administrator. However, the system still has it that it's the last logged in user, and Other users, as the only two options on the login screen. Need this to be able to list all users. I think it's a matter of detaching every form of online/MS/AAD/Office 365 type thing found on the machine so we're down to local-only accounts, but who knows. Any thoughts? Thanks!
- Hi,
you don't have to create a new account, you can sign into Windows using your current Microsoft account that you already have.
there are 2 scenarios:
1. majority of people Need to sign into their Windows 10 because Windows 10 license is associated with their Microsoft account and simply by signing in, Windows will be activated for them, so no more messing around with product keys, trying to keep them safe etc.
2. if it's a work/enterprise environment, users will have to sign into Windows with their Active Directory or Azure Active Directory credentials to benefit from work resources and whatnot.
I'm not sure why step went wrong in your conversation of online to offline account but If I wanted to do that, first I would make a local admin account and then delete my online account from Windows.
