Welcome

May 2025

Welcome to "Local-Accounts", where we highlight how to set them up.

The main focus of this website (currently), is to show how to set up Microsoft Windows 11 Pro without using a Microsoft Account and without doing anything special. The Guide we have shows the Microsoft "approved" method of creating local (offline) accounts during Windows installation.

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