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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AMD FX-6300 in GA-990X-Gaming SLI-CF running Windows 10 x64

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>

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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AMD FX-6300 in GA-990X-Gaming SLI-CF running Windows 10 x64

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

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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AMD FX-6300 in GA-990X-Gaming SLI-CF running Windows 10 x64