In 2026, Microsoft make it harder and harder to set up a Local Account. There are ways around their Out-of-Box Experience that keep requesting a Microsoft Account.

But once you have managed to setup to a Local Account over a Microsoft Account, we find that the end user will constantly get the same notification when signing into that account – Let’s Finish Setting up Your PC!

As the screenshot above shows, you can click on Remind in 3 days, but again – you’re going to have keep doing that over and over.

Buried in the System Notification, there is a tick box that should stop the above.

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