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Changing user profile account on laptop?

Anonymous
2023-09-08T12:23:10+00:00

I suck at explaining things, so I hope this makes sense.
My husband and I, for the last 3 years, shared a laptop. Not only did we share a laptop, but we also used the same user profile, which was logged into his Microsoft account. (because we're married, we saw 0 reason to make different user profiles, nor could we be bothered to)

He just got his own laptop. Now that he has his own, he suggested I switch the profile's Microsoft log in to mine as he has no use for the laptop anymore.
I know I can reset the laptop to do this or make a new user profile and remove his but I want to keep alllllll the settings and stuff that I have on the user profile. The thing has 3 years of use on the profile, its set up just the way I want it(we're both very picky about settings)

How do I switch the user profiles Microsoft account without resetting/making a new profile?

Windows for home | Windows 11 | Accounts, profiles, and login

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Brink 16,570 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
2023-09-08T12:52:16+00:00

Hello Jessica,

One method would be to switch his Microsoft account on your laptop to a local account like in the tutorial below.

https://www.elevenforum.com/t/switch-to-local-account-from-microsoft-account-in-windows-11.1219/

Afterwards, switch this local account to your Microsoft account like in the tutorial below. This way you will not have to create a new account/profile or lose anything.

https://www.elevenforum.com/t/switch-to-microsoft-account-from-local-account-in-windows-11.1220/

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