How to upgrade Windows 10 to 11 using a local account — A step-by-step guide to skipping the Microsoft account requirement

Yes, if you already use a local account on Windows 10, you can upgrade to Windows 11 without having to link your Microsoft account, and here's how.
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Microsoft might be cracking down on Windows 11 local account setups — here's what we know so far

Microsoft has released a new Windows Insider Preview Build 26220.6772 that could make it harder or impossible to set up Windows 11 without first signing in to a Microsoft account. Spotted by our ...

I made Windows 11 way more secure, and it only took two clicks

Easily safeguard your PC by enabling Administrator Protection within Windows 11's Security application - the benefits far ...
PC World

Windows 11 battens down security with new admin rights check feature

As mentioned in the recent Windows Insider blog post, the latest preview version of Windows 11 for Insiders on the Dev Channel includes a new feature called “Administrator Protection,” which “aims to ...
Bleeping Computer

Microsoft expands testing of Windows 11 admin protection feature

Microsoft has expanded its Windows 11 administrator protection tests, allowing Insiders to enable the security feature from the Windows Security settings. First introduced in October in a preview ...
Ars Technica

Recently, regular users with local admin rights can’t access System Restore

I am having the exact same issue as the gentleman in this Thread. I see the thread was closed, but a resolution was never reached...<BR><BR><BR><BR>We are an AD domain. In certain cases we make users ...