New Laptop - WIndows 10 Home - How to DItch the Enforced Microsoft Account at login?

[PC60]

I recently purchased a second laptop, this time for my wife.

On booting it it runs through the HP setup stuff, but unlike the one I bought about 3 months ago this one forced setting up a Microsoft account that we don't want.  

We've binned the One Drive and some other rubbish that was also forceably installed by being forced to create an MS account by the startup process.

How do we ditch it and get the laptop to boot and use a local administrator account ditching all ties with MS except the blooming awful WIndows Update feature?

Advice please?

Thanks

Why do HP force this on customers?

[Paul_Tikkanen · Accepted solution]

Hi:

Every PC manufacturer does it, not just HP.

Even when you clean install an operating system, you have to know exactly what to do to avoid having to use the Microsoft account.

The main thing I don't like about it, is that if someone is able to get into your Microsoft account, they can change the password and now you are locked out of your PC!

Anyway, see the link below for how to switch to a local account.

https://www.howtogeek.com/230543/how-to-revert-your-windows-10-account-to-a-local-one-after-the-wind...

[PC60]

Thank you for the rapid reply Paul.

Mission accomplished MS account can go fester.  I agree totally with your concerns. Sadly I have the experience too that Apple have been horribly unhelpful to my wife who's iPAD locked itself.  Somehow something got pressed, and as happens her email account that was associated with the Apple account is no longer and to make matters worse the scribbles that were made for account hints etc. a few years ago now seem not to work. Even though we have emails to and from here old email account from 2016 including the Apple configuration one... they won't help us so that device is only fit for the bin.  Moral never buy from that decidedly unhelpful manufacturer again.

[Paul_Tikkanen]

You're very welcome.