How Do I Go Back to a Local Account after Setting Up Windows 11 with a Microsoft Account? ⚜️ In Windows 11, you may find you must now log in using a Microsoft account. I'll show you two alternatives that will allow you to continue to use a local account. ⚜️ Using Windows 11 with a local account Windows 11 now requires a Microsoft account to log in. You can switch to a local account by creating an additional local user in the Settings app under Accounts - Other users. Alternatively, you may be able to reinstall Windows and create a local account during setup. Prior options to switch an existing account to a Microsoft account have been removed. Updates, related links, and more discussion: 🔔 Subscribe to the Ask Leo! YouTube channel for more tech videos & answers: ✅ Watch next ▶ Set Up Windows 11 With Only A Local Account ▶ Chapters 0:00 Go back to local account 1:00 Set up a local account 2:35 Change to administrator 3:00 Sign in with that account 4:50 Or do a full reinstall ❤️ My best articles: ❤️ My Most Important Article: More Ask Leo! ☑️ to get your questions answered ☑️ to subscribe to the Confident Computing newsletter. ☑️ to help support Ask Leo! ☑️ for even more! #askleo #microsoft #account