Wonderwrench
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I have been running Windows 8 pro 64 bit with media center since its release. I have a local account and only use my MS account for apps. I wanted to try out 8.1 so I imaged my boot drive and then upgraded to 8.1 through the app store. Once complete I could only login to my MS account. Local login was not an option. My local user account was not listed though my user folder was still present in C:\windows\user. I played around with this problem for a few minutes and do to limited time said the hell with it and imaged back to W8. I tried searching for this problem but found nothing. Has anyone else seen this happen?
I think I may have a reason for this happening but its going to take more time to test than I have right now. I believe all user accounts should be password protected to protect against hacking if someone some how gets on my network. Since my PC only has one user account I use control userpasswords2 to auto log me in. By me doing this previously the option to login to my local account in windows 8.1 is hidden? More info, during the final part of the upgrade windows showed my local account and wanted me to login which I did. Then it wanted me to login to my MS account which I also did. From that point forward I could never find mention of my local account anywhere on the PC.
Thanks
Bill
I think I may have a reason for this happening but its going to take more time to test than I have right now. I believe all user accounts should be password protected to protect against hacking if someone some how gets on my network. Since my PC only has one user account I use control userpasswords2 to auto log me in. By me doing this previously the option to login to my local account in windows 8.1 is hidden? More info, during the final part of the upgrade windows showed my local account and wanted me to login which I did. Then it wanted me to login to my MS account which I also did. From that point forward I could never find mention of my local account anywhere on the PC.
Thanks
Bill
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Win 8 64
- Computer type
- PC/Desktop
- System Manufacturer/Model
- built by me
- CPU
- i7930
- Motherboard
- GA-X58A-UD3R rev 2
- Memory
- 3x4 gig Patriot DDR3 1600 EL
- Graphics Card(s)
- EVGA GTX 460
- Browser
- Firefox
- Antivirus
- WD