Microsoft are keen on you creating/ using an online account
([email protected] ,[email protected] etc) as your log in (it permits
syncing between devices and programs etc but also allows them to suck
data from your activities) but you can use a local account. You can
have many user accounts , and any of them can be local accounts. It's
good security to have them as non administrator accounts too
This is an account that only accesses one user account on that
particular computer. What is more you can set up your computer to
automatically boot into that account, and even have it password
protected. Once that is done you can set any program to autostart, I do
this for cumulus Mx
Once that is set up every time your computer reboots (for any reason) it
will restart with that account and then open any programs in your start
folder
So on my pc I have a local account called weather station;)that the
computer boots into and once booted it automatically starts cumulus Mx
and opens two Brave browser windows: one for ecowitt weather and the
other the cumulus dashboard which I use as a weather display
I suggest you Google local account set up and how to automatically start
programs
I am on holiday at the moment but I will post some links in a day or so
that I found useful
I am a numpty too!, so I have sorted it out over a period of time at
others' suggestions
This arrangement will cope with Microsoft updates, even the large half
yearly ones, and also when other programs demand a restart. Of course in
the latter case you have to initiate the restart (nothing changes until
then anyway so your PC can carry on regardless until you tell it to restart)
It won't cope with power cuts, you need a UPS for that
When the big updates are due I set window updates to be delayed until I
am present, just in case but the last two big updates happened just
fine, seems to take forever though!
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