I have an account that is a Microsoft Account at my office, but the person who used the computer has left, not telling anyone the password. In order to reset the password, I need it to be a local account. All I have is command line access from the Admin account. It's running Windows 8.
I cannot just delete the account, because we have to go through the files first to recover anything we need.
Alternatively, can I copy the files somehow to a new user and then access that account?
Best Answer
You will not be able to convert the account, but you can get the files from the command prompt.
As the administrator user use the
takeown
command to take ownership of the files that you need access to, copy the files off of the computer, wipe the system and create a new user that is not a Microsoft account so this does not happen again in the future.