{"id":51823,"date":"2023-05-24T19:33:49","date_gmt":"2023-05-24T18:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/?p=51823"},"modified":"2023-05-24T20:00:02","modified_gmt":"2023-05-24T19:00:02","slug":"windows-11-pro-create-local-user-account-during-installation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/51823\/windows-11-pro-create-local-user-account-during-installation\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows 11 Pro create local user account during installation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How to create a local user account in Windows 11 Pro 22H2.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, I wanted to install a new instance of Windows 11 Pro in VMware. Usually I use a local account for these test machines. So I selected &#8220;Set up for personal use&#8221; during the installation.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KEf0yA29a-I\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/windows_11_pro_local_en_1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"758\" height=\"426\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-51824\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/windows_11_pro_local_en_1.png 758w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/windows_11_pro_local_en_1-300x169.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 758px) 100vw, 758px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>However, this only gave me the option to log in with a Microsoft account. Clicking on &#8220;Sign-in&#8221; options only gave me the option to reset my password. There was no option for creating a local user account.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/windows_11_pro_local_en_2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1542\" height=\"980\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-51828\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/windows_11_pro_local_en_2.png 1542w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/windows_11_pro_local_en_2-300x191.png 300w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/windows_11_pro_local_en_2-1024x651.png 1024w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/windows_11_pro_local_en_2-768x488.png 768w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/windows_11_pro_local_en_2-1536x976.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1542px) 100vw, 1542px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Create a local user account<\/h2>\n<p>With each iteration of Windows, Microsoft makes it harder for the user to create a local user account. To create a local user account, I had to select the second option &#8220;Set up for work or school&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/windows_11_pro_local_en_3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"611\" height=\"237\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-51832\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/windows_11_pro_local_en_3.png 611w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/windows_11_pro_local_en_3-300x116.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 611px) 100vw, 611px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>At first sight, it just offers the same option to log in with the Microsoft account. However, clicking &#8220;Sign-in options&#8221; here differs from above.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/windows_11_pro_local_en_4.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"537\" height=\"235\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-51836\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/windows_11_pro_local_en_4.png 537w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/windows_11_pro_local_en_4-300x131.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 537px) 100vw, 537px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here, we can now select &#8220;Domain join instead&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/windows_11_pro_local_en_5.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"492\" height=\"275\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-51840\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/windows_11_pro_local_en_5.png 492w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/windows_11_pro_local_en_5-300x168.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 492px) 100vw, 492px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After that we can now setup a local user account, create a password and enter the recovery questions.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/windows_11_pro_local_en_6.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"542\" height=\"435\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-51844\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/windows_11_pro_local_en_6.png 542w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/windows_11_pro_local_en_6-300x241.png 300w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/windows_11_pro_local_en_6-350x280.png 350w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/windows_11_pro_local_en_6-100x80.png 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 542px) 100vw, 542px\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to create a local user account in Windows 11 Pro 22H2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15926,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1555],"tags":[2068],"class_list":["post-51823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software-en","tag-windows-en-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}