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Don’t get me wrong. There are good reasons for using a Microsoft account — such an account makes it much easier and faster to retrieve your mail and calendar entries, for example, or use the Microsoft Store or Microsoft Edge, bypassing individual account logins. It’ll automatically connect you to your OneDrive too. Only you can decide if the added convenience is worth the decreased privacy. Book 2, Chapter 5 covers the details.

However, adding a local account is a good idea when you don’t want Microsoft to know as much about what you do on your Windows 11 PC, or when you want to log in without a password. Here’s how to add a local account in Windows 11:

1 Click or tap the start icon and then Settings.

2 In the Settings window, click or tap Accounts, followed by Family & Other Users.The Family & Other Users screen appears (refer to Figure 4-4).

3 On the right, in the Other Users section, click or tap Add Account.

4 In the How Will This Person Sign In? dialog box, click or tap the link at the bottom that says I Don’t Have This Person’s Sign-in Information.Windows 11 gives you yet another opportunity to set up a Microsoft account, as shown in Figure 4-6.FIGURE 4-6: Here’s the second time Microsoft asks whether you want to set up a Microsoft account.

5 Click or tap Add a User without a Microsoft Account.Windows 11 (finally!) asks you to enter the local account name and password. See Figure 4-7.

6 In the Who’s Going to Use This PC? field, type a name for the new account.You can give a new account just about any name you like: first name, last name, nickname, titles, abbreviations … no sweat, as long as you don’t use the characters / \ [ ] " ; : | < > + = , ? or *.FIGURE 4-7: Now you get to the “adding a new account” part.

7 (Optional) Type a password twice and answer three security questions.If you leave the password fields blank, the user can log in directly by simply clicking or tapping the account name on the sign-in screen.

8 Click or tap Next.You have a new standard local account, and its name now appears in the list of Other Users.

If you want to turn the new account into an administrator account, follow the steps in the section, “Changing Other Users’ Settings,” later in this chapter. To add an account picture for the sign-in screen and the Start menu, flip to Book 3, Chapter 2.

If you created a local account without a password, you can add a password later from Settings ⇒ Accounts⇒ Sign-In Options⇒ Password.

You aren’t allowed to create a new account that's named Administrator. There’s a good reason why Windows 11 prevents you from making a new account with that name: You already have one. Even though Windows 11 goes to great lengths to hide the account named Administrator, it’s there, and you may encounter it by accident. For now, don’t worry about the ambiguous name and the ghostly apparition. Just refrain from trying to create a new account named Administrator. You can create any account with any other name, with or without administrator permissions.