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The difference between Microsoft accounts, work or school accounts, and local accounts
Hands-On Windows

Jan 26th 2023

Hands-On Windows 25

Windows 11 Account Basics

Hosted by Paul Thurrott

The difference between Microsoft accounts, work or school accounts, and local accounts

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Category: Help & How To

Windows 11 supports three types of sign-in accounts: Microsoft accounts, work or school accounts, and local accounts. In the before times, Windows users would create a local account when they first signed into a PC. But any configuration changes they subsequently made, or documents and other files they saved to that PC, would be unavailable when they used another computer. This week, Paul goes over the differences between the different Windows 11 account types.

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