I just setup local accounts on 3 pc for my grandkids to have their own user space on 3 of my pcs.
They have no email, what’s app, phone numbers, nothing and their parents don’t want them to have that yet as they are 6, 8, 9 yrs old.

Same here

I do not want Microsoft to have all my computer on the cloud, yet it does not let me cancel the continuing pestering.

Damn you Microsoft.

And – I was told that there is an option to unlink the files .
but MS design is that you only get to see that option when all the setup, including the linking process is completed –
so no warning about the massive additions to the MFT, no mention of the unlink facility before the linking is all done, and then it appears as an option that was not there when I initially went looking at the control available for the OneDrive App.
And

The older 2 core DDR3 RAM system – 3 days of it getting to the login screen, letting me login, and then ignoring all mouse and keyboard input – just keeping the comms lights glowing, along with the hard drive and the CPU usage glowing .

IT did eventually finish the setup of the OneDrive App and I could then (having found out about the unlink option on the new I7 system) unlink the /users/me/OneDrive/ folder entries –
another day of not getting any thing done on that system as the MFT gets a major thrashing,
then another wait as the MFT is compressed to get rid of all those added, and now deleted entries.

Luckily the lack of response stopped me adding OneDrive app to the login I use for the OneDrive maintenance for the family’s usage and systems security.

so, while OneDrive for educational students level users, and for business users with IT support to manage their systems – maybe – providing they have the Gigabit/sec comms links, 6 core 11th gen cpu’s with fast SSD’s and RAM.
for the majority of home users –
start by considering do you want to pay for microsoft 365 and have MS update it as they wish, while also changing your OS ?

Or will you pay the £19.99 annual subscription for 100GB of OneDrive storage so that windows 11 hav backup your system to the OneDrive and use all the space for that as opposed to your data.

hi peter, I want to ask you if you are signing out of your original account to get to the local account, and not restarting to switch accounts. I was restarting and I had the same issue you did, instead go to start menu, and click on your profile picture, and you’ll see the option to sign out. If you restart and switch, windows will show that the original account is still signed in and hence not let you change the name saying its still open in some other program. Hope that fixes it for you, because it did for me.

I’m trying this on Linux Mint 22.04 LTE with Cinnamon desktop. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Tried it with the path and filename in quotes – says it can’t find it, tried it with no quotes (read somewhere) and then says “access denied”

example:

dism /Online /Add-Package /Package Path:C:\12a7fce0-15ad-4432-b426-30cce23cfedf_cb3c43347dabad62bb4817a9cc2a5c4bfec89160.cab (realtek audio driver)

Typical Microsquat difficulties… just have to shake my head!

Thanks for reading!

Bonus, when it is not working, you often cannot go to Properties, Sharing. Explorer stops working. When you turn off everything in Advanced sharing settings, Explorer works instantly.

NOTE, the folders will not appear in your copy of Explorer, but you can see them with the \\Mycomputer command in Explorer. Other computers may see them in explorer. I recommend you use Explorer Map as drive feature.

So does anything bad happen if there’s two of the same mac address on a network?

The ‘PowerShell Dismount-DiskImage -DevicePath \\.\’ suggestion worked fine for me.

Keep up the good work!

Look for “Display Enhancement Service”.

Right click, select “Stop” Then Double click and in “Startup type” select “Disabled”.

Restart the computer