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Qandon
Feb 25, 2025Iron Contributor
Stopping "Microsoft account problem" notification
In a moment of weakness I had previously configured my new laptop to use an old Microsoft account to login. It took much frustrating effort to rid myself of this login and go back to using a local account/password (involving deleting all of the biometric Windows Hello methods that had become associated with this Microsoft account).
Presently, I can login locally and have no other real issues with my brief run-in with using a Microsoft account other than one nagging issue. Several times a day I spot a notification down near the time/date in the taskbar. Upon opening the notifications I see the same notification again and again. Windows is upset that I'm not logged into my Microsoft account. I can dismiss this notification but it will regenerate before long and continue to hound me over and over.
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All of the solutions I see online either apply to Windows 10 (and I'm running Windows 11) or they apply to people who are actually using a Microsoft login (which I am not doing as I use a local login). Frequently, this notification is attributed to problems with the Nearby Sharing functionality (which seems largely unused and deprecated). I have Nearby Sharing turned off and I am not logged into a Microsoft account.
I do not experience this issues on my Windows 11 desktop (which I never made the awful mistake of trying to use a Microsoft account login). I'm assuming the problem on my laptop is due to some residue leftover from my experimentation with using a Microsoft account to log in to my laptop.
Is there anybody else out there that does not use Microsoft account login (using local login instead) who has experienced this persistent nag to sign into a Microsoft account? I do not wish to turn off all notifications and it seems that there is no fine grained control to turn off notifications for just this particular nag.
Any thoughts on how to make this go away?
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