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In today’s Ask the Admin, I’ll show you how to disconnect a Microsoft account from a Windows 8 login.
When setting up a user account in Windows 8 for the first time, Microsoft encourages you to provide details of a Microsoft account, such as those used to access Outlook.com, so that Windows can automatically log you in to Microsoft services and synchronize OneDrive files.
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While this provides a convenient computing experience, not everybody wants this functionality, and at any time, you can disconnect a Microsoft account from your local Windows login using the PC Settings app in Windows 8.1.
Log into Windows 8 using the account you want to modify, and follow the instructions below:
Change to a local account in Windows 8 (Image Credit: Russell Smith)
Now when you sign back in, you will be using a local account. In much the same way as we disconnected a Microsoft account from a Windows 8 login above, you can also reconnect a Microsoft account.
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