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Pastimes : Windows 11 -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Don Green who wrote (26)	7/2/2021 2:37:33 PM
From: Eric L	1 Recommendation Recommended By Don Green Respond to of 93

Win10 Home with local administrative account ... << It is been awhile but I think Windows 10 had the same requirement >> I don't think so, Don (although early Insider preview builds may have required it). See this 'Microsoft is making it harder to use Windows 10 local accounts' post that I made to the Windows 10 Board back in February 2020 before I upgraded Win10 Home to Pro: Message 32564674 Also see this post there made a few months later: Message 32736933 Although I have a Microsoft account I seldom sign in with it, using a local administrative account instead. BTW: The referenced value priced HP Pavilion 590-po66 Win 10 Desktop with with 8th gen Intel Core i5-8400, 1 TB HDD, 12 GB RAM and two new HP 24" monitors for it that I purchased Cyber week 2019 are still unboxed and I'm currently still using a 2015 Dell Dimension Win10 Pro box with 4th gen i4-4460 Core and single 24" Dell monitor day to day today. Back in 2019 the 3 Dell components which had a total original MSRP of $998 were purchased online from Staple cost me $549 delivered. Call me frugal -- or just a cheapskate :_:). I'll install the newer box and monitors within the next few months after reconfiguring my workstation modules and upgrade it to Win 11 when the upgrade is available and the early kinks worked out. The older Dell Inspiron will remain Win 10 Pro 20H2 with my old CanoScan 5600F¹ flatbed image scanner attached and using some non-transferable lifetime licensed application software until end of its life cycle and perhaps beyond for off-line use. ¹ If I recall correctly, you have a similar CanoScan. Cheers, - Eric L -