![]() ![]() The online access from using a Microsoft account allows data, some applications, and personal preferences to be synchronized between different computers such as how my desktop background changes on my laptop after I have changed it on my desktop PC and how my internet favorites are the same on both my desktop and laptop PCs. Users of Microsoft accounts must use an email address and password when logging in. Users of local accounts can choose whether or not to use a password when logging in. One change is the need for a password when using a Microsoft account. Microsoft accounts have several differences from local accounts. That section discusses the differences between Standard and Administrator accounts in Windows 7 but the same information applies for Standard and Administrator accounts in Windows 8/8.1. Note: If you haven’t read the Windows 7 User Accounts article yet, I would like to recommend reading it or at least the Account Types section. In Windows 8/8.1, child accounts are used for that same purpose but they have their own account type now. If parental controls were needed, users needed to go to the specific account and add the restrictions to that account. In Windows 7, the ability for adding parental controls was tied to the permissions for Standard accounts. The addition for the available account types is the Child account. Both Microsoft and local accounts also use the same Standard and Administrator types identified in the Windows 7 User Accounts article but there has been an addition to these two account types. Users of local accounts can only access data on that single computer. Local accounts are used only on the computer the account is created on whereas Microsoft accounts can be used across multiple computer as the account settings are stored online. The other account type used for creating accounts used in Windows 7 has been renamed to Local account. This account is an online account called a Microsoft account. In Windows 8, Microsoft introduced a new type of account. In this article, I will looking at Windows 8 user accounts and the differences from Windows 7. Windows 8/8.1 shares some similarities with the Windows 7 user accounts but there are also differences. In a previous article for Windows 7 User Accounts, I discussed the different types of user accounts and how to create new accounts.
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