Change Your Existing Microsoft Account to a Local Account in Windows 11 (And Vice Versa)

If you need to have a local account in Windows 11 but don't want to create an additional account, you can easily convert your existing Microsoft account to a local account in just a few steps. This process will leave you with just one account and if you need to change it back to a Microsoft account, you can simply reverse the process. If your Microsoft account was an administrator type account, your local account will be created as a local admin as well.

Here is how you create an additional local account in Windows 11 if that is what you are looking for.

Here is a writeup of the process on our website.

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[willonthewing]

Thanks! My PC had Windows 11 preinstalled with a local account and, when I received it, I logged into my Microsoft account, so I had a local account with the separate Microsoft login added later. After searching for over an hour I finally found your video and the Accounts>Your info>Account settings option which was showing something about automatically signing in to Microsoft apps, so I toggled it and was able to log into my Microsoft account instead of the local account that was preinstalled without a password.

[SpaceRanger]

Simple and Straight to the point. Thank you.

[mestrelotus]

Thank you so much. Life is so much sweeter now thanks to your tutorial.

[ainolonia]

10/10 tutorial. Efficient, does what it says, perfect.

[kewweboye]

hey! for me theres no setting where it says change to local account pls help me

[ChristopherFreedom]

Great video... however I am using windows 10. Will this work the same on windows 10? Thank you

[timetorelaxfocus]

On Windows 10 I can click stop signing in everywhere and it converts back to Local, if I click "Sign in with a Microsoft account instead" it will convert back to that. (meaning, I didn't have to create another account)

[briangreene]

great video - question - do you have a tutorial on how to change your local admin acct to a microsoft admin acct??? thanks for all you do

[phoon]

Short question: currently i have Work account on my laptop, its Windows 10. What can I do, to keep all the stuff there but to be sure no one externally can affect my account? Lock, block, etc
Appreciate your help!

[jessederinger]

Thank you I appreciate the video, only one minor question that wasn’t covered, Do you lose any data switching to local account?

[wild_bill]

There’s no longer an option for creating a local account. Microsoft must have removed it with an update or something. I will be returning my PC for a Mac

[harveyhans]

Hello, do I keep my installed apps and settings on the local account when I do this?

[RenderReviews]

I logged into my laptop with my student account as a Microsoft account, and now there is no way for me to switch to a regular user. There is no setting for me to sign in as a local user. I can't create a new account and then delete this one because I have so much in this account. It's annoying. Can you please help me?

[briangreene]

how can I share my office 365 acct with a family member?? she does not have a ms acct??