How to create a guest account on Windows 11 through the settings app The Windows 11 Settings app will let you add a new user account to your PC that you'll be using in place of a guest mode.

The workaround, shared by X user @witherornot1337, lets users set up Windows 11 with a local account instead of being forced to log in with a Microsoft account.

If you're on the latest version, Windows 11 provides multiple ways to change your password, whether the account is configured with a Microsoft account or you use a local account.

If you've set up a Windows PC recently, you'll know that the process includes logging into or creating a Microsoft account. Where once you could push on with just a local profile created, Microsoft is ...

Windows 10 allowed users to create local accounts by default, and even early versions of Windows 11 Pro included a local setup path.

A previously unknown trick lets you easily bypass using a Microsoft Account in Windows 11, just as Microsoft tries to make it harder to use local accounts.