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I'm wanting to pass on my old laptop to someone else and ideally wanted it to look as close to a new laptop as posisble to them with no traces of me left on it. I used start/setup/accounts & security/reset to reinstall windows deleting everything ... however this insists on a microsoft account login - while it says you can switch to a local logion later the details of my account were still there which I don't want.
Is there any way to (re)install windows 10 without using a microsoft account ... or can you use one to complete the install and then expunge all reference to it afterwards?
And as a minor further irritant ... the reinstall also added the bloatware that original came on the laptop.
Would it be better to download a win10 image to a usb stick and start from there?
Is there any way to (re)install windows 10 without using a microsoft account ... or can you use one to complete the install and then expunge all reference to it afterwards?
And as a minor further irritant ... the reinstall also added the bloatware that original came on the laptop.
Would it be better to download a win10 image to a usb stick and start from there?